[OpenIndiana-discuss] command will not run from cron but will from CLI

[david at kosmosisland.com]

> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:01 PM, <david at kosmosisland.com> wrote:
>
>> I have not been able to get even a simple command to run from cron.  For
>> a
>> test I created this script:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> export PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/root"
>> /bin/echo "test" > /root/test.log
>>
>> It runs from the command line but does not from cron:
>>
>> 55 11 9 * * * /root/test
>>
>> The log shows:
>>
>> >  CMD: * /root/test
>> >  root 17987 c Mon May  9 11:55:00 2016
>> <  root 17987 c Mon May  9 11:55:00 2016 rc=127
>>
>
> It's not the script, it's your crontab entry.
>
> The command it's trying to run (see the CMD in the log) is
>
> * /root/test
>
> and, indeed, where there should be 5 time specifiers in the crontab entry
> you have 6:
>
> 55 11 9 * * *

I was blinded by my frustration.  Thank you, Peter!

David Koski

>
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