Re: Perl cron job not running

date >> /tmp/mycron.log; /usr/bin/perl /share/script/Test/report.pl

Change the semicolon to && since cron executes only one command per entry:

*/5 * * * * date >> /tmp/mycron.log && /usr/bin/perl /share/script/Tes +t/report.pl
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update: wrong test - as haukex writes below, cron takes the rest of the line as one command.

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

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Re^2: Perl cron job not running by haukex (Archbishop) on Jul 20, 2016 at 08:47 UTC
Hi shmem, I guess there are different implementations of cron and it depends on that? The one on my system doesn't care about semicolons and executes multiple commands. Regards, -- Hauke D	[reply]
Re^3: Perl cron job not running by shmem (Chancellor) on Jul 20, 2016 at 15:21 UTC
whipped up a cron line `/1 * * * root touch /tmp/foo; touch bar` [download] and checked `/tmp` - meh... `bar` was touched in `/root` of course :-P perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Perl cron job not running by haukex (Archbishop) on Jul 20, 2016 at 17:28 UTC
Hi shmem, Yeah, I've been using cron more often recently and I've been bitten by stuff like that :-) BTW, I noticed that there is a special character that cron does care about: apparently `%` marks the start of data that will be sent to the command on STDIN (and is converted to a newline after that). I'll have to try and remember that one too... Regards, -- Hauke D	[reply] [d/l]