crontab entry

[Rodgers Hemer]

On Jul 6, 2011, at 10:45 PM, calvin covington wrote:

> Running filePro 5.0.11 on Centos 5.5......
> 
> I need to run a filepro program from crontab.  The following script is
> loaded  in crontab to run a specified times.
> 
> PFDIR=/usr/appls; export PFDIR
> PFPROG=/usr/appl; export PFPROG
> cd /usr/appls
> chmod 777 ardsupd.gz
> chmod 777 ardsupd
> rm -f ardsupd
> gunzip ardsupd.gz
> tar xvf ardsupd
> /usr/appl/fp/rreport shopxfer -f inupdate -a -u
> 
> The script runs at the times specified in cron, but the last line not
> execute. 
> 
> I can run the script manually and it works fine.
> 
> Any ideas?

Calvin:

I always put the filePro command into a script some where on the path and call that script in the crontab command.  Cron does not like the arguments that are a part of the normal filePro command.

Rodgers Hemer
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