<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 6, 2011, at 10:45 PM, calvin covington wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Running filePro 5.0.11 on Centos 5.5......<br><br>I need to run a filepro program from crontab. The following script is<br>loaded in crontab to run a specified times.<br><br>PFDIR=/usr/appls; export PFDIR<br>PFPROG=/usr/appl; export PFPROG<br>cd /usr/appls<br>chmod 777 ardsupd.gz<br>chmod 777 ardsupd<br>rm -f ardsupd<br>gunzip ardsupd.gz<br>tar xvf ardsupd<br>/usr/appl/fp/rreport shopxfer -f inupdate -a -u<br><br>The script runs at the times specified in cron, but the last line not<br>execute. <br><br>I can run the script manually and it works fine.<br><br>Any ideas?<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Calvin:</div><div><br></div><div>I always put the filePro command into a script some where on the path and call that script in the crontab command. Cron does not like the arguments that are a part of the normal filePro command.</div><div><br></div><div>Rodgers Hemer</div></body></html>