Re: Problems with a bash script and cron
Sounds like a path problem to me!
Lars Bjarby <laban@gmx.net> wrote:
: Hi!
: This question isn't really Debian specific, but as I use Debian I thought
: this was a good forum. I've got this small bash script that works perfectly
: when I run it from the shell, but it won't work when I try to run it
: through cron and I don't get any error messages from the cron daemon either
: (maybe I'm looking in the wrong places).
: The script below downloads the specified URL and generates and MD5 sum for
: the HTML source. If this is the first time the script is run it saves the
: MD5 sum in a file otherwise the MD5 sum is checked against the old one. If
: they differ, the script will send an e-mail to me.
: (yes, I know this script really isn't useful for slashdot as the page is
: different every time...but it's good for debuging)
: ----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------
: #!/bin/bash
: EMAIL="laban@gmx.net"
: MD5FILE="/home/laban/tmp/chkwww.md5"
: URL="http://www.slashdot.org";
: DATE=`date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"`
: SUBJECT="Update - $DATE"
: LOG="FALSE"
: LOGFILE="/home/laban/tmp/chkwww.log"
: ###############################################
: if [ "$LOG" = "TRUE" ]; then echo -e "$DATE\t$0\tChecking for
: updates..." >>$LOGFILE; fi
: MD5SUM_NOW=`lynx --source $URL | md5sum`
: if [ ! -e $MD5FILE ]; then
: echo $MD5SUM_NOW > $MD5FILE
: exit
: fi
: MD5SUM_DISK=`head -1 $MD5FILE`
: echo $MD5SUM_NOW > $MD5FILE
: if [ $MD5SUM_NOW != $MD5SUM_DISK ]; then
: echo "$URL has been updated." | mail -s "$SUBJECT" $EMAIL
: if [ "$LOG" = "TRUE" ]; then echo -e "$DATE\t$0\tPage updated,
: notification sent to $EMAIL." >>$LOGFILE; fi
: else
: if [ "$LOG" = "TRUE" ]; then echo -e "$DATE\t$0\tPage not
: updated." >>$LOGFILE; fi
: fi
: if [ "$LOG" = "TRUE" ]; then echo -e "$DATE\t$0\tExiting..." >>$LOGFILE; fi
: ----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------
: My crontab looks like this:
: 0,15,30,45 * * * /home/laban/bin/chkwww
: Any ideas?
: .//Laban - laban@gmx.net - 311885@ICQ - Public PGP-key available
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