crontab not executing a working shell script

Question

I have a script of the following format:

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#!/bin/bash

cd /abc/def/user1/test

export NIMBUS_ENV_FILE=/abc/def/user1/test/nimbus_env

main/vdnet -c yaml/config.yaml -t ABC. . .*

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my script executes perfectly when run from the shell.I want to execute this script daily and so i have set a cron job for the same by editing crontab -e as :

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PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:.

00 12 * * * /home/test.sh > /home/testCronLog.log 2>&1

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Hoever, the cron job is run but it does not run the script as expected and gives following errors:

main/vdnet: line 2: readlink: command not found

dirname: missing operand

Try 'dirname --help' for more information.

main/vdnet: line 3: /../main/environment: No such file or directory

main/vdnet: line 8: /../scripts/nimbus/setup: No such file or directory

main/vdnet: line 14: /../main/vdNet.pl: No such file or directory

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I do not get these errors when I manually execute the script and am not able to figure out whats wrong.The owner of the script is same as the crontab user. Please Help!!!

Answer 1

The issue is now resolved. I added the path to the script before running my command main/vdnet : export PATH=...

Thanks

Answer 2

when you use some command or something, or your script, its always better to give full path
so give full path of main/vdnet in your script

Answer 3

try changing the line which calls vdnet line in test.sh to:

main/vdnet -c /abc/def/user1/testyaml/config.yaml -t ABC...*

Your problem I think is that although test.sh runs perfectly from crontab, main/vdnet does not, and that is because the reference you have supplied it as the argument to the -c option needs the full path.