trouble with CRON

I am having a problem getting a CRON job to run in LINUX 6.1.

I added this line to my crontab using crontab -e logged in as root.

0 0 * * * ps -ef |awk '$8=="./ezproxy" {print "kill -9 " $2}' | sh; cd
/usr/local/ezproxy; ./ezproxy &

This line worked on other LINUX and UNIX installations. It also works from
the command prompt.
It fails to run.

Any ideas???
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Re: trouble with CRON

At 05:24 AM 16/04/2002, Shroyer-Matchan, Cherie (SHROYECL) wrote:
>I am having a problem getting a CRON job to run in LINUX 6.1.
>
>I added this line to my crontab using crontab -e logged in as root.
>
>0 0 * * * ps -ef |awk '$8=="./ezproxy" {print "kill -9 " $2}' | sh; cd
>/usr/local/ezproxy; ./ezproxy &
>
>This line worked on other LINUX and UNIX installations. It also works from
>the command prompt.
>It fails to run.
>
>Any ideas???

Any error logs? Check your root mail, or better yet, add an alias in
/etc/aliases for "root: YourNormalUserID" and run newaliases.

Make sure there are no blank lines in your crontab, use # for spacing lines
and no blank line at the end of the file. If this is the case, you should
at least get an error message from the cron daemon in root's email.

One last thing, you might want to make this a script and have cron run the
script, instead of a bunch of piped commands in your crontab file.

HTH

Scott.

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Re: trouble with CRON

One other thing to realize is that cron doesn't run
..profile or .bashrc. Sometimes your PATH, as well as
other variables, needs to be setup.

--- "Shroyer-Matchan, Cherie (SHROYECL)"
wrote:
> I am having a problem getting a CRON job to run in
> LINUX 6.1.
>
> I added this line to my crontab using crontab -e
> logged in as root.
>
> 0 0 * * * ps -ef |awk '$8=="./ezproxy" {print "kill
> -9 " $2}' | sh; cd
> /usr/local/ezproxy; ./ezproxy &
>
> This line worked on other LINUX and UNIX
> installations. It also works from
> the command prompt.
> It fails to run.
>
> Any ideas???
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RE: Re: trouble with CRON

If the process has been up for more than 24 hrs then the awk positional parameter for ezproxy would be wrong. It would be $9 instead of $8

you could try: ps -ef | grep [e]xproxy | awk '{print "kill......

Kyle wrote:

> One other thing to realize is that cron doesn't run
>.profile or .bashrc. Sometimes your PATH, as well as
>other variables, needs to be setup.
>
>--- "Shroyer-Matchan, Cherie (SHROYECL)"
> wrote:
>> I am having a problem getting a CRON job to run in
>> LINUX 6.1.
>>
>> I added this line to my crontab using crontab -e
>> logged in as root.
>>
>> 0 0 * * * ps -ef |awk '$8=="./ezproxy" {print "kill
>> -9 " $2}' | sh; cd
>> /usr/local/ezproxy; ./ezproxy &
>>
>> This line worked on other LINUX and UNIX
>> installations. It also works from
>> the command prompt.
>> It fails to run.
>>
>> Any ideas???
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Re: trouble with CRON

on "4-16-2002" "Shroyer-Matchan, Cherie (SHROYECL)" writ:

: I added this line to my crontab using crontab -e logged in as root.
:
: 0 0 * * * ps -ef |awk '$8=="./ezproxy" {print "kill -9 " $2}' | sh; cd
: /usr/local/ezproxy; ./ezproxy &


The first form of this command is used to install a new
crontab from some named file or standard input if the
pseudo-filename ``-'' is given.

.... from my reading of it, a cron entry is looking for a 'named' file,
rather than, a string of commands ...


--
.... i'm a man, but i can change,
if i have to , i guess ...


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