[tclug-list] script help

[Raymond Norton]

That did not do the trick.

This is the script: (It does not seem to execute, but cron shows it ran. 
The backup script works fine via cron, but does not get executed when 
called from this script)

#!/bin/bash

HOST="windowshostname"

CMD="ping -c1 $HOST"
CMD_RET=`$CMD`
# echo $CMD_RET
NOWDATE=`date +%Y%m%d`

if [ -f ping_check.txt ];
then
      FILEDATE=`cat ping_check.txt`
else
      FILEDATE=0
fi

if [ $NOWDATE -ne $FILEDATE ];
then
      if [[ $CMD_RET =~ ", 0% packet loss" ]]
      then
           echo "$HOST pinged ..."
           echo $NOWDATE > ping_check.txt
         # run backup script
      else
           echo "$HOST did not ping ..."
      fi
fi

exit



On 01/04/2011 04:24 PM, Smith, Craig A wrote:
> Raymond Norton wrote:
>
>    
>> I tried appending>  /dev/null, but can't get it to run like it does from the command line.
>>      
>
> Does it send an annoying email every time it runs?
>
> If so, try adding  \;>  /dev/null  2>&1
> to the end of crontab entry.
>
> For example:
>
> 1-59/10 * * * *  /path-to-script/scrip.sh  \;>  /dev/null  2>&1
>
> will silently run the script every 10min.
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