[CentOS] Bug with cron ?

Fri Mar 20 10:52:27 UTC 2009
MOKRANI Rachid <Rachid.MOKRANI at ifp.fr>

Hi,

The following script works fine on all worksation when it's start manually or if I run it line by line manually.

If I would like to run it on crontab, the following line
	"/usr/bin/yum -y install VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.x86_64" 
not install the new release of vmplayer with no errors.



#!/bin/bash

SHELL=/bin/bash
export SHELL

/etc/init.d/vmware  stop

/usr/bin/yum -y remove VMwarePlayer.x86_64
/usr/bin/yum -y remove VMware-Player.x86_64

/usr/bin/yum -y install VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.x86_64

/usr/bin/vmware-networks --stop
/usr/bin/vmware-networks --migrate-network-settings /vmware/virtualmachine
/usr/bin/vmware-networks --start

/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 vmware on 
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-----Message d'origine-----
De : centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] De la part de John Doe
Envoyé : vendredi 20 mars 2009 11:09
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Objet : Re: [CentOS] Bug with cron ?


From: MOKRANI Rachid <Rachid.MOKRANI at ifp.fr>
> Something is strange on my system. I have a simple shell script to run
> on many computers . When I run this script by hand, everything works
> fine on all workstations.
> But if I start this script via crontab vmplayer is never install with no
> errors.
> #/usr/bin/yum -e 0 -d 0 -y remove VMware-Player.x86_64
> #/usr/bin/yum -e 0 -d 0 -y install VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.x86_64
> #/usr/bin/vmware-networks --stop
> #/usr/bin/vmware-networks --migrate-network-settings
> /vmware/virtualmachine
> #/usr/bin/vmware-networks --start
> #/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 vmware on

When you say "I run this script by hand", do you mean run the script itself or each line of the script as you showed above?
Did you try to redirect stdout/stderr to files to see what is going on?

JD


      

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