Get_gfs.pl and Cronjob

[amelia graziano]

Eric,

Thanks a lot. The problem was with "curl" and the wrong path.

Amelia

At 21:37 07/03/2008, you wrote:
>Hi Amelia,
>
>Your problem may be related to the PATH setting that's used when
>cron runs your script. When you run the script interactively, your
>.profile (or .cshrc) sets the PATH variable, and apparently it
>includes /usr/local/bin since the shell is able to find curl.
>However, user dotfiles aren't automatically executed when cron runs,
>so if /usr/local/bin is not in the PATH setting in the default
>system dotfiles, you need to add it to your script, e.g.
>
>export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
>
>Best regards,
>
>Eric L. Altshuler
>Assistant Research Scientist
>Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
>Calverton, MD 20705-3106
>USA
>
>E-mail: ela at cola.iges.org
>Phone: (301) 902-1257
>Fax: (301) 595-9793
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "amelia graziano" <ameliagraziano at TISCALINET.IT>
>To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
>Sent: Friday, March 7, 2008 8:29:38 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>Subject: Re: Get_gfs.pl and Cronjob
>
>Patrick,
>
>Thanks a lot. Using log.err.getgfs I released that under 3get_gfs.pl
>the location of "curl" was wrong.
>
>the wrong one was $curl="curl";
>Correct was $curl="/usr/local/bin/curl";
>
>Amelia
>
>At 14:00 07/03/2008, you wrote:
> >Hi there,
> >
> >if you want some help from the list or me, you have to be a lot more
> >precise. What is not working ? Does the cron job work ? (Maybe a '
> >echo "here-1 ">>log ' would tell you if the logfile is working .. do
> >you get error messages ? )
> >
> >try also
> >
> >/directory/3get_gfs.pl data 20$yar$mon$day$start 0 120 3 all 'UGRD.10
> >m above ground|VGRD.10 m above ground' /outputDir   1>
> >/directory/log.out.getgfs 2> /directory/log.err.getgfs
> >
> >And look at the content of the of the /directory/log.out.getgfs
> >a/directory/log.err.getgfsnd files after the cron ...
> >
> >Cheers
> >   Patrick