Problem with cronjob

[ebp]

Hi

I'm running some cronjob on my sheevaplug but one of them doesn't work. My crontab is:

Code:

# m h  dom mon dow   command

@hourly /flexget/flexget.py -q

*/10 * * * * /flexget/watchdog.sh

@hourly gpodder -r

The script i have problems with is watchdog, when i run it from the commandline it works fine, but as a cronjob it doesn't work. The content of the script is: 

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# Watch dir, may contain spaces:
watchdir="/mnt/mybook/Torrent/torrentfiler/showrss/"

# move file to a subdirectory? if Commented out, it'll removed remove
# the torrent file.
# Note: Don't put a '/' before the path!
movesubdir="added/"


# Authentication "username:password":
tr_auth="brugernavn:kodeord"

# Transmission host "ip:port":
tr_host="127.0.0.1:9091"

# Verbose?
verbose=1

#############################################
time=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d (%H:%M:%S)")
if [ -n "$tr_auth" ]; then
    tr_auth="--auth=$tr_auth"
fi

for file in "$watchdir"*.torrent
do
    if [ -f "$file" ]; then
        if [ -n "$verbose" ]; then echo "$time: $file added to queue."; fi

        /usr/bin/transmission-remote "$tr_host" "$tr_auth" -a "$file" > /dev/null
        # give the remote some time to process
        sleep 5

        if [ $movesubdir ]; then
            if [ -d "$watchdir$movesubdir" ]; then
                mv "$file" "$watchdir$movesubdir"
            else
                mkdir "$watchdir$movesubdir"
                mv "$file" "$watchdir$movesubdir"
            fi
        else
            rm "$file"
        fi
    else
        if [ -n "$verbose" ]; then echo "$time: No torrent in $watchdir."; fi
    fi
done

exit 0

Hope you can help

[birdman]

Not a good idea to post username/pwd to a forum.

If that's all of the script then how do you know it isn't working?  It doesn't do anything apart from set some variables!

If the posting was incomplete then the problem *may* be that you set a specific PATH in your interactive account, which won't be set for cron.

Getting the script to write all of its output to a log when run non-interactively would help you:

Code:

[ -t 0 ] || exec > /mnt/mybook/Torrent/cron.log 2>&1

[ebp]

I didn't post my password, brugernavn and kodeord is the danish words for username and password, i replaced them on purpose.


If i run [ -t 0 ] || exec > /mnt/mybook/Torrent/cron.log 2>&1 there is no output.

I run cronjobs as root, don't know if that helps. 

[ebp]

This is embarrassing, i just realized that i didn't post the complete script. I have edited the original post so it's correct.   

[ebp]

I have fixed it, but i'm sorry i have wasted your time. The problem was my own fault, since i'm not terribly good at english i by mistake called the scrip whatchdog and it should have been watchdog as in the crontab.