Help with wget in crontab (auto ftp download)

[k371n]

Originally Posted by echelon6

Thanks, ok trying this now

so if I tell a process to redirect its shell output to a file that doesn't yet exist, linux will make the file for me?

Yes.
/tmp dir is already made.
$ ls -Fla /tmp
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[echelon6]

Ok I confirmed cron works...

Implementing everything in its final form

fingers crossed

edit:

Ok cron is working, but when it finally runs, NOTHING gets downloaded. I also output my wget into a log file and while the log file gets successfully created, it is blank

my cron script is:

date=`date -I` ; wget -P /volume1/downloads ftp://USER:PASS@SITE.com.au/SITE.com.au_$date.tgz > /tmp/wgetLog

If I run the cron script by itself in the shell, it downloads the file perfectly. But when in crontab, it doesn't do anything except make a blank file called wgetLog



I'm sooo close to my solution, just need a bit more help, thanks

[k371n]

Try this cron script:

(date=$(/bin/date -I) ; /usr/bin/wget -P /volume1/downloads ftp://USER:PASS@SITE.com.au/SITE.com.au_${date}.tgz > /tmp/wgetLog 2>&1)

One of the recommendations in an earlier post said to use full paths for your binaries.
k_

ps.
I tried a variant of the above and it worked with the following, optimised.

/usr/bin/wget -P /volume1/downloads ftp://USER:PASS@SITE.com.au/SITE.com.au_$(/bin/date -I).tgz > /tmp/wgetLog 2>&1

[cleary]

Originally Posted by echelon6

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date=`date -I` ; wget -P /volume1/downloads ftp://USER:PASS@SITE.com.au/SITE.com.au_$date.tgz > /tmp/wgetLog

...

the date format you're using here is different to the one you specified initially too - are you sure it's correct?

[bugayev]

Don't forget to specify the full path to date not just wget

[echelon6]

Originally Posted by bugayev

Don't forget to specify the full path to date not just wget

Yep bingo that did the trick

For some reason, commands in cron need to specify the full path of wget and date and other functions. once I did this, everything worked sweet

Thanks EVERYONE for all the help these last few days