cronjob is not executing.

[ArifulHossain tuhin]

I have the following shell script

-->cat capture.sh
TIME=$(date +"%H-%M-%d-%m-%y")
IP="203.208.198.29"
PREFIX=$TIME$IP
tshark -f "udp" -i eth0 -w /root/captures/$PREFIX.cap&
pid=$!
sleep 2m
kill $pid

it runs fine when i execute it from shell.

but when i add it to the cron tab nothing happens.

my crontab entry :
1 */2 * 2 3,4,5 sh /root/capture.sh

-->tail /var/log/cron
shows that the command has executed .

but nothing happens. i have set executable permission for "all" for capture.sh and write permission for "all" for /root/captures directory.

Thanks in advance

[Bit Twister]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 11:46:53 -0800 (PST), ArifulHossain tuhin wrote:
>
> it runs fine when i execute it from shell.

Yup.

> but when i add it to the cron tab nothing happens.

So what is different between cron and your shell.

just for fun, put
env > /tmp/env.list
as your first line and let it run.

While waiting do a
env

cat /etc/crontab

at your terminal prompt.

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