APM: Crontab problem

[Wayne Walker]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:53:51PM -0500, David Murphy wrote:
> 
>    Im trying to load a script via  crontab
> 
>    The cronttab entry is
> 
*/2  *  *  * * cd /path/to/script && QUERY_STRING='Blah:Blah' ./script.pl

That should do exactly what you want.

in order to test manually rather than wait for cron,:

env -i SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/bin:/bin PWD=/home/wwalker SHLVL=1 HOME=/home/wwalker LOGNAME=wwalker /bin/sh -c "cd /path/to/script && QUERY_STRING='Blah:Blah' ./script.pl"

Your problems are almost certainly environment variables that you expect
to be set that are not.  Your user start up files are NOT read by the
shell that cron execs your program with.

Or the misspelliong of the exported variable.  in my method, your only
have to type it once.

>    Some varations ive tried are
>     1. Putting the command in a sh file and running that
>     2. */2  *  * * *  QUERY_STRING='Blah:Blah' ; export QUIERY_STRING ;cd
>        /path/to/script ; ./script.pl
>     3. */2  *  * * *  QUERY_STRING='Blah:Blah' ; export QUIERY_STRING ;cd
>        /path/to/script ; perl script.pl
>     4. */2  *  *  *  *  QUERY_STRING='Blah:Blah' ; export QUIERY_STRING ;
>        perl  /path/to/script.pl
>     5. */2  *  *  *  *  QUERY_STRING='Blah:Blah' ; export QUIERY_STRING ;
>        /path/to/script.pl
>     6. Writing a Perl script that  issue system(`QUERY_STRING='Blah:Blah'
>        ; export QUIERY_STRING ;cd /path/to/script ; ./script.pl')
> 
>    None of these work but all of these if put into sh or bash run fine.
> 
> 
> 
>    What I get back via a cronemail is variable
> 
>    But  one  thing   is constant it always in one way or another say file
>    not found
> 
>    Either sh cant find it or perl cant or bin/sh couldn't find it.
> 
> 
> 
>    Anyhelp here would be awesome
> 
> 
> 
>    And  0755 is the permissions and owner ship of the file it to the user
>    running the cron.

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