[mythtvnz] Script help please

[tortise]

On 6/01/2014 7:07 p.m., Steve Holdoway wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 18:45 +1300, tortise wrote:
>> Hi
>> I'm trying to run a script from crontab -e with
>>
>> * * * * * /home/user1/cronping.sh
>> * * * * * /home/user1/mythlinks.sh
>>
>> from the tab.
>>
>> syslog shows each is being called each minute, however only cronping
>> seems to run.
>>
>> mythlinks.sh is:
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/user_jobs/mythlink.pl --link
>> /var/www/mythlinks --format '%T/%T - %Y%m%d-%H%i -%S'
>> /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/user_jobs/mythlink.pl --link
>> /var/www/mythlinksall --format '%T - %Y%m%d-%H%i -%S'
>> /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/user_jobs/mythlink.pl --link
>> /var/www/mythlinksalldate --format '%Y%m%d-%H%i - %T -%S'
>>
>> sudo /home/user1/mythlinks.sh runs fine.
>>
>> I've been running mythlinks.sh here every minute for testing purposes,
>> but when its working I will knock it back to hourly.
>>
>> What am I missing? How can I debug this further as mythlinks.sh won't
>> run from the crontab, which is what I am seeking.
>>
> If it only runs with sudo, then it needs to be in the root cron, not
> user1's which is where crontab -e will get you to. sudo crontab -e might
> work? I'm a luddite and just log in as root so can't confirm or not.

Sorry I should have said I was running sudo crontab -e
crontab -e does get you to just the user1's crontab (its blank in terms 
of active commands)
Also this is on mythbuntu 10.04. (The alternative approach is to upgrade 
to 12.04 and see if the issue persists but debugging 10.04 seemed the 
most expedient path...maybe...!?)