Unable to run a tcl from cronjob

[Mason Miller]

I can run my script from command prompt fine but when I add to crontab it will not run anyone know what I am doing wrong? I think it has something to do with calling hcitcl here is what I have

Code:

#!/quovadx/qdx5.4/integrator/bin/hcitcl

#move all .old files to smatfiles directory and delete from process directory

#get current date
set dt [clock format [clock seconds]  -f  “%m_%d_%Y” ]

#set directory where whats are
set sourcedir “/quovadx/qdx5.4/integrator/smat_data”

#searches for any file in source directory with .old
set sourcefiles [glob -path  $sourcedir “/*.old*”]

#Moves files from source directory to archivesmat directory
foreach sourcedir $sourcefiles {
set path [split $sourcedir “/”]
set filename [lindex $path 5]
set destdir “/quovadx/qdx5.4/integrator/archivesmat/$dt/”
file mkdir $destdir
file copy $sourcedir $destdir
file delete -force $sourcedir
}
exit

Topic

[James Cobane]

Mason,

Are you running it under the ‘hci’ user’s crontab?  Also, in your cron entry, are you setting your root and site before executing the script? i.e.

59 23 * * * setroot;setsite mysite;myscript

What error message do you see being returned from cron?

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health

[Mason Miller]

Code:

exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program /quovadx/qdx5.4/integrator/bin/hcitcl because of the following errors:
0509-150   Dependent module libtcl8.3.so could not be loaded.
0509-022 Cannot load module libtcl8.3.so.
0509-026 System error: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.

*****************************************************************
cron: The previous message is the standard output

This is the error

here is my crontab entry

0 8 * * * /quovadx/qdx5.4/integrator/scripts/smatmove.tcl

And yes I am running under hci crontab

[Mason Miller]

Thanks for the help I was not using setroot; in my crontab it is working now

[Robert Milfajt]

What’s the difference between using

Code:

setroot;setsite mysite;myscript

from James’ reply and using

Code:

/usr/bin/ksh -c ‘eval `/qvdx/qdx5.5/integrator/sbin/hcisetenv -root ksh /qvdx/qdx5.5/integrator mysite`;myscript’

as I find in my crontab.

Bob

Robert Milfajt
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL

[Chris Williams]

cron jobs do not default to running with the same environment as the user who creates the job. You must explicitly establish the environment variables, particularly those relating to Cloverleaf activity.

You can do them in the individual cron scripts, or you can make them apply to ALL jobs in the crontab file by defining them in that file prior to the job entries.

Depending on your OS, doing “set | more” should show you all of your currently active environment variables .

Chris

[Steve Carter]

More food for thought:

* * * * * (. ./home/hci/.profile ; myScript.tcl) >/dev/null 2>&1

[Chris Williams]

If you’re asking about the scheduling, cron checks the crontab list once every minute. Using all astks will run your scrpt:

Once each minute

of every hour

on every day of the month

of every month

on all days of the week.

You usually wouldn’t use an asterisk in the first position unless you really want it to run once a minute.

As to setting the environment variables, my approach is to do that at the beginning of the crontab file, so you can treat the individual job entries as regular scripts rather than doing all the extra stuff repeatedly. The crontab files are specific to each user. How many hci jobs would you want to run outside of an hci environment?

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