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<p>Good info Jeff.</p>
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<p>My system is Ubuntu 14.04 and here's my now modified command line for the crontab file:</p>
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# m h dom mon dow user command<br>
24 * * * * aaron cd /home/aaron/upstream; rtma.sh >& /home/aaron/tmp/test.log<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 06, 2014 8:14 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gradsusr] No Text Plots When Script Executed Via Crontab</font>
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<div>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:<br>
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0 3,9,15,21 * * * cd /chinook/jdduda/forecast; run_4km_NAM_plots.tcsh >& NAM_cron.log<br>
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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
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crontab crontab_forecast<br>
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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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Perry, Aaron @ LSC <span dir="ltr">
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<p>Which crontab file would you suggest inserting it into?</p>
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<p>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.<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 06, 2014 6:43 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gradsusr] No Text Plots When Script Executed Via Crontab</font>
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<div>It's possible that the crontab software is overwriting those environmental variables. Try setting them inside the text of the cron script.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Perry, Aaron @ LSC <span dir="ltr">
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<p>Hi Michael,</p>
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<p>Thanks for replying to my question.</p>
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<p>I currently have the following at the top of the shell script:</p>
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export PATH=/mnt/grads:$PATH<br>
export GADDIR=/mnt/grads/<br>
export GASCRP=/home/aaron/scripts/dec2013</p>
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<p>I also have that in .bashrc file.<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 06, 2014 5:52 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gradsusr] No Text Plots When Script Executed Via Crontab</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1f497d">Are you setting the GADDIR inside your script?</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 06, 2014 2:19 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [gradsusr] No Text Plots When Script Executed Via Crontab</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Good Afternoon All,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">I'm currently trying to execute a shell script (.sh) in crontab that runs GrADS.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">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:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Error opening stroke character data set
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Data set names = /usr/local/lib/grads/font0.dat ; font0.dat</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">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/.</span></p>
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