Script Works, But Not with CRON

[Kenneth Brody]

Bob Stockler wrote:
> 
> The following script works _perfectly_ when excuted from
> the command line, but fails when run by 'cron'.
> 
> I added the statements "STATUS=${STATUS}$?" after each
> filePro command to capture the exit values of each one,
> and it returns "STATUS=101011" in email to me.  That
> indicates all of the filePro commands except the "ddir"
> one are failing.
> 
> No other filePro processes are running when this is run.
> 
> What am I overlooking?
[...]

Get rid of the ">/dev/null 2>&1" on each line, and instead wrap the
entire command set with:

    (
    ... current script ...
    ) >/tmp/output.dat 2>&1

You can then examine the output file for any error messages.  (Just
remember that the output file will not be all text, but rather text
intermixed with terminal escape codes.)

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