Welcome stahl,

Part of the problem is that when you execute the script from the command line, you have all the environmental variables set up for you. Unfortunately when you run the script(s) from 'crontab', you more than likely have a totally different set of environmental variables.

Try running a script from crontab that captures the environmental variables ( 'env' command ) to a file and then run the same script to a different file. Use 'diff' to find the differences and then your script will have to initialize those variables for crontab. You also want to give the full path for all commands since the PATH s may be different. You'll know for sure when you see the diff results.

Good Luck

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

In reply to Re: Problem with AIX 5.3 Perl/SH Script and Crontab by flexvault
in thread Problem with AIX 5.3 Perl/SH Script and Crontab by stahl

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.