Cronjob doesn't work in Jail?

[kalleboy]

Greetings.

I have;

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
20 12 * * * /root/myscr.sh (Trying to run every day at 12:20 PM - If I made it correctly here)

in my "crontab -e" screen, however myscr.sh file doesn't get executed.

Any clue on this?

 

[SirDice]

Look in /var/log/cron (of the jail).

 

[kr0m]

The best way to debug Cron jobs is obtaining the ENV variables and then executing the script manually with that variables assigned.
You can see an example here.

 

[SirDice]

I'm willing to bet the script does get executed (easily verified by looking at /var/log/cron) but the script itself fails, most likely cause is the limited PATH of a cronjob.

 

[covacat]

command line is flawed
(Trying to run every day at 12:20 PM - If I made it correctly here)
sh will reject it

 

[kr0m]

I'm willing to bet the script does get executed (easily verified by looking at /var/log/cron) but the script itself fails, most likely cause is the limited PATH of a cronjob.

If you dump the ENV variables you can simulate in a accurate way the cron execution:

crontab -e
*/1 * * * * env > /tmp/env

grep -e SHELL -e PATH -e HOME -e LOGNAME /tmp/env
env -i SHELL=/bin/sh PATH= HOME= LOGNAME= PATH_TO_SCRIPT

You will see if something is failing