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Reputation: 1006

bashscript is not getting invoked in current shell through crontab

everyting working as root user in linuxmint. my bashscript works perfectly as a single script and generating logfile as well but it is not getting invoked in my current shell through crontab.

path of bashscript: /root/Documents/mybashscript.sh

crontab line:

0.9 * * * * root /root/Documents/mybashscript.sh > /root/Documents/crontab.log

mybashscript.sh inside commands are as below:

#!/bin/bash
source /root/.profile
echo -n "Please enter your name: "
read name
TIME=‘date +%H‘
case $TIME in
0[6-9] | 1[01] ) echo -n "Good morning";;
12 ) echo -n "Good Noon";;
1[2-6] ) echo -n "Good Afternoon";;
1[7-9] ) echo -n "Good Evening";;
*) echo -n "Good Night";;
esac
echo " $name, Nice to meet you!"

Can anybody tell me how to trouble shoot.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 100

Answers (1)

paxdiablo
paxdiablo

Reputation: 881573

First things first, I don't believe 0.9 is a valid minute indicator. I think you probably want 0-9 (depending on when you want it to run of course).

Secondly, you appear to have an extraneous root in your cron entry (the first one following the final *).

Thirdly, cron jobs don't really work that well for interactive input like:

read name

so I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve there.

Upvotes: 1

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