Shell script does nothing called via crontab

Support Software & Applications
1

Hi all,

I have a strange behavior of a script, ftest.sh.
If I run it directly from a root-account, it does, what it should do.

    sh /etc/shellscripte/fotos/fotos/ftest.sh > /home/xy/ftest.log

If I run it via crontab (cronie) it does nothing.

    36 17   * * *   root    sh /etc/shellscripte/fotos/fotos/ftest.sh > /home/xy/fotos.log

The content of the script ftest.sh is

exiftool  -charset utf-8 -csv -m -fast -r -ext jpg -c %.6f -Filename -Directory -CreateDate -XResolution  -YResolution -exif:gpslatitude -exif:gpslongitude -xmp:Description -ImageWidth -ImageHeight  /home/bilder/dir001   /home/bilder/dir002  /home/bilder/dir003  /home/bilder/dir004  /home/bilder/dir005  /home/bilder/dir006  /home/bilder/dir007  /home/bilder/dir008  /home/bilder/dir009 > ./allefotos.csv

Could anybody give me a hint, what could be the difference between the execution between the shell and via crontab?

Regards

CJC

2

First, this command sends its output to the home directory of the xy user.

Then,

sends (or tries to send) the output to the /~xy directory which may not exist. The commands probably fails silently.
I would therefore explicitly write /home/xy/fotos.log if it is indeed where it is expected to save the output.

3

Yes… those were typos… I have corrected them.

4

Did you checked if cornie is actually running?

systemctl status cronie

Did you see something in the journal?

sudo journalctl -u cronie --no-hostname --no-pager
5

Thankyou.

Apr 06 17:36:01 CROND[1654013]: (root) CMD ( sh /etc/shellscripte/fotos/fotos/ftest.sh > /home/xy/fotos.log) Apr 06 17:36:01 CROND[1654011]: (root) CMDOUT (/etc/shellscripte/fotos/fotos/ftest.sh: Zeile 1 exiftool: command not found.)

That is strange: I can start exiftool from bash. Is with cronie another path configured?

6

Yes, by default, the PATH in crontab in minimal. Better put the full path in front of your command.

7

It should be just /usr/bin:/bin

8

Thank you

9

This topic was automatically closed 15 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.