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shell script in crontab, not all output being logged

I've got a simple shell script that runs a few LFTP commands and processes the files. When running straight from bash I get full output of those LFTP commands on screen. When running from crontab ...
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linux cron mysqldump: php exec() vs shell script vs direct command in crontab

The system is running CENTOS 5.8, Apache 2.2.3, MySQL 5.0.95, PHP 5.3.3 We run mysqldump daily for a few databases. It's run via a php script called in crontab. They are run at the same time and ...
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Solutions for scheduling cronjob

I have setup a list of cron, Some of the cron script takes a long time to run (like 1-5 hours, and they are increasing every day). I do not want to run two cron scripts at the same time, as I do not ...
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Command does not execute in crontab while command itself works just fine

I have this script from Colin Johnson on Github - https://github.com/colinbjohnson/aws-missing-tools/tree/master/ec2-automate-backup It seems great. I have modified it to send email to myself every ...
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Root crontab not executing script

I have a script listed in my roots crontab 07 9 * * * /opt/HLRSDATA_2010_OCT/HLRS_Scheduler_sp.sh > /opt/HLRSDATA_2010_OCT/logs/HLRTKJob.log This script contains the following #!/bin/bash echo ...
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SFTP download the files and then i wanted rename the server files how to do this?

I have to setup with the banking interface where I need to connect to the remote bank and then download the files in the bank server in-box to my local server for further processing so i do following ...
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Assigning environment variables for CRON

I have a .sh script that creates a .tar.gz file and transfer's it to a remote server using RSA keys for authentication. The script will run from terminal but it will not when I try to set it up as a ...
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How to call perl from crontab?

I can run this command fine from the SSH console of my rackservers shared hosting: cd /home/myaccount/public_html/whatever; perl -w -I/home/myaccount/public_html/whatever rss2txt.pl ...
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OS X Server script to archive (or empty) a users mailbox every morning

I have a requirement (SpamAssassin 'training') to archive (or delete) two user's (users are junkmail and notjunkmail) inboxes at a given time every day if there is anything in them. Can anyone help ...
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RSync shell script failing to run as CRON, runs fine manually

I have a simple shell script that runs Rsync. It runs fine if I call it manually from the command line, but when I set it up as a CRON job I get the following error: rsync: failed to open exclude ...
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shell script won't work in cron

I have very smiple script to do a backup, and it is working fine when I run it from the command line, but I am having problems running it as cron job. My cron entry is this: (running it every minute ...
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Set up a linux shell script cron job on Plesk 9.5.4

Operating system Linux 2.6.18-028stab089.1 Parallels Plesk Panel version 9.5.4 Set up a test cron job in Settings>Scheduled Tasks>user "root"> * * * * * /var/www/cron/webcrontest.sh ...