[lug] Scripting question

[Jeffrey S. Haemer]

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On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Jeffrey S. Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I agree with Davide & Zan Lynx, of course.
>
> Other stuff, if you still end up mystified:
>
> (1) Capture the iptables output, with
>   iptables -L -v | tee /tmp/iptables.OUT | grep INPUT | awk '{print $7}'
> Just looking at the output of the iptables may do the trick.
>
> (2) make things a little safer with
> #!/bin/bash -eux
>   instead of
> #!/bin/sh
>
> (3) Try putting this at the top of your crontab
>
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> BASH_ENV=~/.bashrc
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Davide Del Vento <
> davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I suspect the issue is that cron jobs do not get the same enviroment that
>> a login shell does. You'll probably have to source the /etc/profile or
>> something like that as first thing in the cron job. You might try
>>
>> env > env.txt
>>
>> both in login and in a cron job job and then diff'ing the difference.
>>
>> Happy Holidays to you too.
>> Davide
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Paul Nowosielski <
>> paulnowosielski at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I am trying to monitor bandwidth on a high traffic VPS web server
>>> running CentOS 5.
>>>
>>> When I run the scripts from the command line it works perfectly and
>>> gives an output like this:
>>>
>>> Fri Dec 21 02:40:12 CET 2012
>>>
>>> Bandwith out:
>>> 274G
>>>
>>> Bandwidth in:
>>> 85G
>>>
>>> When I run this as a cron job I get this:
>>>
>>> Fri Dec 21 03:00:01 CET 2012
>>>
>>> Bandwith out:
>>>
>>> Bandwidth in:
>>>
>>> As you can see I am not getting the output data when using cron and do
>>> not understand why.
>>>
>>> Here is the commands I am running and the script I call:
>>>
>>> /bin/date >> /root/scripts/bandwTest; /root/scripts/bandwidth.sh >>
>>> /root/scripts/bandwTest;
>>>
>>> bandwidth.sh
>>>
>>> cat scripts/bandwidth.sh
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>
>>> echo
>>> echo "Bandwith out:"
>>> iptables -L -v |grep OUTPUT |awk '{print $7}'
>>> echo
>>> echo "Bandwidth in:"
>>> iptables -L -v |grep INPUT |awk '{print $7}'
>>> echo
>>>
>>> Could anyone on this list provide some insight into this?
>>>
>>> Thank you and happy holidays,
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
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>
>
>
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Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
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