OpenEuphoria

Re: A (trick) example of search in Euforum and CRON

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jul 24, 2005
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Rubens wrote:
> As I didn't find my answer to the question may be
> someone could help me with this:
> Anyone using cron and debian to run euphoria scripts ?
> The script runs well in the shell ( /home/
> ./euscript.exu ), but in cron, nothing happens.
> Euphoria Linux instalation is ok, the first line
> of the script is #!/usr/euphoria/bin/exu.
> 
> Then line in crontab is */1 * * * *  /home/euscript.exu
> 
> euscript.exu is in /home/
> euphoria is in /usr/euphoria/
> EUDIR is ok.
> 
> I'm running it as root.
> Permission are 777 for euscript.exu,

I run some Euphoria programs with cron.
Whenever I set up a new one, it seems there's
a glitch at first. The cause might be:

  - cron is running as a different user, and that user
    has a different PATH, or does not have EUDIR defined

  - permissions are wrong on the main program, or included files,
    or directories containing those files, or data files

In my crontab file, I specify SHELL and PATH, as well as the
timing of cron.

I specify a specific time each hour like:
   05 * * * * $HOME/euforum/filter.exu

I haven't used */1

It's probably just some sticky little Linux issue like that.
There is no reason why a Euphoria program can't run under cron.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com