I have a written a shell script to automate a build process.
The script checksout some code from an SVN repo, compiles and builds the code before extracting the built binary files and storing these in a central location.
I can manually execute the script ./autobuild.sh and it runs perfectly. There are a few sudo commands executed throughout the script, but I echo the password through for the first sudo command and the password holds for the entire time:
echo mypassword! | sudo -S make clean
When I add executing the script as a crontab it fails to complete all the tasks. I've tried to add it as a cronjob for the normal and root users.
Running crontab -e on my normal user account, I want the script to run at ten past midnight every day:
10 0 * * * /home/username/autobuild.sh
Also running a 32-but Cent OS 7 install with all the latest updates installed.
Can anyone provide any suggestions as to why it might work manually but not when run through a cron?
Try this
10 0 * * * /bin/bash /home/username/autobuild.sh