Converting CRONTAB entries from 3.5.2 -> 5.3

[Anonymous]

In our testing we have found that the crontab entries don’t know where to look for the scripts we’ve migrated from 3.5.2 to 5.3.2… Has anyone gone thought the same problem when upgrading their system? Oh, the 5.3.2 cloverleaf software is running on AIX 5.2.

Any ideas are greatly appreicated!

Thanks in advance! Mary.

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[Robert Kersemakers]

Hi Mary,

Regarding crontab entries for Cloverleaf, we always switch user (su -) to the user Cloverleaf is running under (‘hci’ in our case) before the job is started. This way all paths are set correctly.

We’re running 5.2.1 on HP-UX 11.00.

Hope this helps!

Zuyderland Medisch Centrum; Heerlen/Sittard; The Netherlands

[Mark Thompson]

Hi Mary,

We are running CL 5.3.0 on AIX 5.2.   We use setroot in the crontab entries to make sure paths are set correctly.  A typical entry looks like

# Bounce all the Dev, Val & Training sites  #

0 4 * * * setroot; /home/hp/scripts/hpBounceSites

You might want to verify that FPATH and QUOVADX_INSTALL_DIR are being set in your /etc/environment file.

- Mark Thompson
HealthPartners

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your responses! We used the setroot and it now works fine! Everything else was set up.. Thanks, Again! Mary. 😉

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