calling a java standalone in crontab

[Prashanth Chandra]

Hi
I am trying to call a java standalone through the crontab. I have written a standalone java program and deployed ths same in /bin. I have written a standalone.sh file and i am calling the java file in that.

standalone.sh(The contents are)
java Update

It works fine if I directly run the file from linux like ./standalone.sh

In my crontab i am calling the standalone.sh as

*/10 8-19 * * Mon-Fri /bin/standalone.sh , which should run every 10 minutes from Monday to Friday. In this same way I have written a servlet(in place of standalone) which works fine.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

cron jobs don't have your full complement of environment variables available because they're not run in a login shell. Just make sure the standalone.sh includes everything it needs to run, and things should work fine -- i.e., path to Java, classpath, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or whatever else you might need.

[Don Morgan]

You can setup a common file with all the environment parameters you need and then source this file from within your shell script to properly set the environment. This is a neat and tidy way of keeping the environment definition in one place and works well if you need to have more than one program running with the same environment variables.

[Sarath PS]

try bash --login filename.sh

Which will load all variables !

[Layne Lund]

You may need to include the following line at the top of your standalone.sh script:

#!/path/to/bash

This is typically needed to make a bash (or other shell) script run as a standalone command, even from the command prompt.

Layne

[kirti marode]

I am calling ajava program from a crontab, the entry is something like this

17 16 * * * $HOME/check.sh >>$HOME/test.log 2>&1

where it shd execeute at specfic time and log the o/p of the program to test.log, I could see shellscript and program running but its not dumping the o/p to log file, why so ?