[gradsusr] No Text Plots When Script Executed Via Crontab

Wed Aug 6 20:23:10 EDT 2014

Good info Jeff.

My system is Ubuntu 14.04 and here's my now modified command line for the crontab file:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/mnt/grads:$PATH

# m h dom mon dow user  command
24 * * * * aaron cd /home/aaron/upstream; rtma.sh >& /home/aaron/tmp/test.log

Onward and Upward,

Aaron D. Perry
Atmospheric Sciences
Lyndon State College
Class of 2016
Boston, MA
Twitter: @AaronPerryLSC<https://twitter.com/AaronPerryLSC>
Web: weathercdn.com<http://weathercdn.com/>
Mobile: 617-780-4312
________________________________
From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org <gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org> on behalf of Jeff Duda <jeffduda319 at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 8:14 PM
To: GrADS Users Forum
Subject: Re: [gradsusr] No Text Plots When Script Executed Via Crontab

Oh...are you running this on a Linux OS?  My experience with crontab has been at the command prompt, but there is a coded way of scheduling the script to run.  Here's an example of one that I use:

SHELL=/bin/tcsh
0 3,9,15,21 * * * cd /chinook/jdduda/forecast; run_4km_NAM_plots.tcsh >& NAM_cron.log

This tells my script to run the script run_4km_NAM_plots.tcsh at hour 3, 9, 15, and 21 (LT). I found I had to include the SHELL and directory changes in order to get it to run correctly on the system I use (probably to overwrite some defaults).  Then it's just a simple

crontab crontab_forecast

where crontab_forecast was the text file containing the two lines of code above, to get the job to go on its own.  Perhaps it works differently with other OSs or architectures.

Jeff

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Perry, Aaron @ LSC <Aaron.Perry at lsc.vsc.edu<mailto:Aaron.Perry at lsc.vsc.edu>> wrote:

Which crontab file would you suggest inserting it into?

I've been trying to use sudo crontab -e and drag/dropping the script into /etc/cron.hourly/ but,haven't had much luck. Been experimenting with gnome-schedule.

Onward and Upward,

Aaron D. Perry
Atmospheric Sciences
Lyndon State College
Class of 2016
Boston, MA
Twitter: @AaronPerryLSC<https://twitter.com/AaronPerryLSC>
Web: weathercdn.com<http://weathercdn.com/>
Mobile: 617-780-4312
________________________________
From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org<mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org> <gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org<mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org>> on behalf of Jeff Duda <jeffduda319 at gmail.com<mailto:jeffduda319 at gmail.com>>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 6:43 PM
To: GrADS Users Forum
Subject: Re: [gradsusr] No Text Plots When Script Executed Via Crontab

It's possible that the crontab software is overwriting those environmental variables.  Try setting them inside the text of the cron script.

Jeff Duda

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Perry, Aaron @ LSC <Aaron.Perry at lsc.vsc.edu<mailto:Aaron.Perry at lsc.vsc.edu>> wrote:

Hi Michael,

Thanks for replying to my question.

I currently have the following at the top of the shell script:

#!/bin/sh

export PATH=/mnt/grads:$PATH
export GADDIR=/mnt/grads/
export GASCRP=/home/aaron/scripts/dec2013

I also have that in .bashrc file.

Onward and Upward,

Aaron D. Perry
Atmospheric Sciences
Lyndon State College
Class of 2016
Boston, MA
Twitter: @AaronPerryLSC<https://twitter.com/AaronPerryLSC>
Web: weathercdn.com<http://weathercdn.com/>
Mobile: 617-780-4312
________________________________
From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org<mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org> <gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org<mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org>> on behalf of Frost, Mr. Michael <Michael.Frost at nrlmry.navy.mil<mailto:Michael.Frost at nrlmry.navy.mil>>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 5:52 PM
To: GrADS Users Forum
Subject: Re: [gradsusr] No Text Plots When Script Executed Via Crontab

Are you setting the GADDIR inside your script?

Michael Frost
Naval Research Laboratory
Marine Meteorology Division
7 Grace Hopper Avenue, Stop #2
Monterey, CA 93940
Phone:  831-656-4723
Fax:  831-656-4314
Email:  mike.frost at nrlmry.navy.mil<mailto:mike.frost at nrlmry.navy.mil>

From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org<mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org> [mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org<mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org>] On Behalf Of Perry, Aaron @ LSC
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 2:19 PM
To: GrADS Users Forum
Subject: [gradsusr] No Text Plots When Script Executed Via Crontab

Good Afternoon All,

I'm currently trying to execute a shell script (.sh) in crontab that runs GrADS.

I am able to run the shell script fine on it's own but, when I run it via crontab, I always get the following error:

Error opening stroke character data set
Data set names = /usr/local/lib/grads/font0.dat ; font0.dat

I have GrADS installed in /mnt/grads/ and all the associated font#.dat files in /mnt/grads/ so, I'm a bit perplexed as to why my system thinks that GrADS is in /usr/local/lib/.

Any ideas?

Onward and Upward,
Aaron D. Perry
Atmospheric Sciences
Lyndon State College
Class of 2016
Boston, MA
Twitter: @AaronPerryLSC<https://twitter.com/AaronPerryLSC>
Web: weathercdn.com<http://weathercdn.com/>
Mobile: 617-780-4312

_______________________________________________
gradsusr mailing list
gradsusr at gradsusr.org<mailto:gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr

--
Jeff Duda
Graduate research assistant
University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms

_______________________________________________
gradsusr mailing list
gradsusr at gradsusr.org<mailto:gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr

--
Jeff Duda
Graduate research assistant
University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/attachments/20140807/1203368d/attachment-0001.html 