[HCoop-Help] how to write to files using cron?
Adam Chlipala
adamc at hcoop.net
Wed Dec 23 08:41:48 EST 2009
Alexandre Santos wrote:
> I'm having difficulties setting up a cron job, and would need some help:
>
> The cron job launches a script that should append text to a file.
> Here's an example in the .crontab:
>
> * * * * * run-in-pagsh --fg date date>> $HOME/folder/file.txt
>
I think this is the result of a simple confusion: the ">>" notation is
being interpreted by the initial shell process, not run inside a pagsh.
Therefore, the file writing happens without AFS tokens. You could fix
the problem by putting the whole command to run inside a separate shell
script, using some additional quoting, etc..
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