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khm
Asked: 2016-09-27 07:22:35 +0800 CST

Cron running but CMD not working

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I just switched to an Ubuntu 14.04 server from an 11.04 server. In /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root I have the line:

* * * * * /root/arewerunning.sh > /root/appmon.log

arewerunning.sh looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

if P=$(pgrep aserver)
then
  echo  " "
else
  echo "aserver has stopped. System Will reboot"
sudo reboot now
fi

On the 11.04 server this was working. Whenever I killed aserver the system would reboot. But on 14.04 the command appears to be running but the system does not restart. cron.log looks like:

(root) CMD (/root/arewerunning.sh > /root/appmon.log)

when the process hasn't been killed and like:

(root) CMD (/root/arewerunning.sh > /root/appmon.log)
(CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)

when the process has been killed. I know that the MTA line is because it is trying to email me and it can't, but that shouldn't prevent the reboot.

I have tried running the command outside of cron and it works just fine. I'm using a direct path so that shouldn't be a problem. I have also tried adding "sh" in front of the command. appmon.log isn't showing anything. I've tried putting other commands in the file and they work just fine.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I figured it out! The problem was a path issue for reboot. I had to put "sudo /sbin/reboot now" in arewerunning.sh. I had read about the path issues for other commands but didn't put two and two together that reboot was also a command whose path might have been tampered with.

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