csh running from crontab

[Michael A. Dias]

I have a csh script on SunOS that runs fine interactively,
but does not fire from crontab. It's a csh script, which
I start with #!/bin/csh, but it still doesn't fire, and I
get no error indications. Any ideas?

Thanks

[Kerr Tung]

You can try to put "SHELL=/bin/csh" in /etc/default/cron. This will
cause cron to use /bin/csh to run cron jobs. But this may cause problmes
for some of the system Bourne Shell scripts.

Kerr

[Cuong Q Tran]

Kerr Tung <td2...@tafmss4.bgm.link.com> writes:

>Michael A. Dias wrote:
>>
>> I have a csh script on SunOS that runs fine interactively,
>> but does not fire from crontab. It's a csh script, which
>> I start with #!/bin/csh, but it still doesn't fire, and I
>> get no error indications. Any ideas?

Or put this in your cron:
/bin/csh /path/to/script/script

[Thomas Sippel - Dau]

In article <4v21mt$8...@hacgate2.hac.com>, md...@alycia.andrew.cmu.edu (Michael A. Dias) writes:
- I have a csh script on SunOS that runs fine interactively,
- but does not fire from crontab. It's a csh script, which
- I start with #!/bin/csh, but it still doesn't fire, and I
- get no error indications. Any ideas?

In the .cshrc files and its include bits, refrain from doing things like
stty which only work on a controlling terminal. use tty -s to find out if
some such is available.

Better still, start the script with #!/bin/csh - to suppress reading
the .cshrc file, if your csh allows that.

Thomas

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