Re: script run from crontab, output not appearing as expected

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Date:         Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:21:41 -0500
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

If you are trying to pass an argument to a script/program via cron look at
the: "%" operator in crontab documentation.
Also, if your passing an argument "$1", then try to call the
script/program itself and the argument from within another script
which is called from cron, basically try not to use arguments/options
against scripts/programs when calling them from
crontab.

--Justin Richard Bleistein
AIX Systems Administrator

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11/23/2004 09:58 AM
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script run from crontab, output not appearing as expected

I created a script that requires one argument. When I run the script from
the command line as root, my output appears as expected. When I run it
from
cron however, my output is not as expected. It is a TSM script that
gathers
information and outputs it into a file. From the command line, it shows me
how much data has been backed up, from the crontab, it just shows zero in
each column.

Thus far, I am looking at this as a cron issue, not a TSM issue so I asked
it here. If this is the wrong place for it, my apologies.

Thanks in advance,

Drew

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