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May 29th, 2006, 05:19 PM
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Help with cronjob/shell script
I have a shell script that I am tring to call from root's crontab. For some reason it is not working. The error seems to be: "Unknown command." The shell script is located in /. Here is the crontab entry.
59 23 * * * cd /; ./ftp_smarter.c I have also tried /bin/sh ../ftp_smarter.c Here is the shell script: Code:
#!/bin/sh HOST='hostname' USER='username' PASSWD='password' FILE='grab.txt' cd /home/price /usr/bin/pftp -n $HOST <<END_SCRIPT quote USER $USER quote PASS $PASSWD put $FILE quit END_SCRIPT exit 0
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#2
May 29th, 2006, 06:22 PM
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If you are wanting to execute ftp_smarter.c which is in the root directory then just use /ftp_smarter.c as the command - and make sure it is executable.
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May 29th, 2006, 07:14 PM
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You have the same form of quotes around the follwing lines:
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HOST='hostname' USER='username' PASSWD='password' FILE='grab.txt' What exactly are you trying to do with them? Did you mean to set some of the variables to the return value of a command? If it runs ok from command line then I would suggest that your PATH is not set up correctly in the script.
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#5
May 29th, 2006, 07:47 PM
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My script now looks like this:
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#!/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin HOST='hostname' USER='username' PASSWD='password' FILE='grab.txt' cd /home/price pftp -n $HOST <<END_SCRIPT quote USER $USER quote PASS $PASSWD put $FILE quit END_SCRIPT exit 0 but I am still getting the exact same error? Should I try adding it to /etc/crontab to see if it works from there?
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#6
May 30th, 2006, 11:54 AM
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It should not make much difference where it is (roots crontab or /etc/crontab). Do we know exactly what is casuing the error? Is there anything in roots mail?
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#7
May 30th, 2006, 11:39 PM
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The error that I am posting here comes from root mail. I have also checked /var/log/messages .. and etc. but have found nothing that relates to my issue. I am sure that I am doing something wrong because from my experience user error is usually to blame
 I just can't seem to figure out what I am doing wrong. I did try adding it to /etc/crontab just to see what happens and came up with nothing. Thanks very much for your help. If you come up with any more ideas please post them here.
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#8
May 31st, 2006, 02:57 AM
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Try adding some echo statements to the script and see if they show up in the logs. That way you may be able to isolate where the problem is.
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May 31st, 2006, 05:10 PM
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The use of echo for debugging is a good idea.
cron is normally, in my experience, a little friendlier with script errors which makes me continue to think it might be the actual crontab entry with the issue.
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#10
June 14th, 2006, 12:07 PM
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Did you ever get this working? If not try this it works great for me (FreeBSD 4.10 and 5.5):
Code:
#!/bin/sh HOST="hostname" USERNAME="username" PASSWORD="password" FILE="filename" ftp -d -n -v $HOST <<! quote user $USERNAME quote pass $PASSWORD passive on prompt off progress on binary put $FILE ls bye ! This assumes you are using the supplied FreeBSD FTP server and you have the path set correctly in your crontab.
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