I'm running Ubuntu Server 14.04 and I'm trying to get a shell script to run at boot. The problem is the script requires args, one of which is a file (a database) and the other is a port number which is found in the same folder as the script. I'm fairly new to this.
When I go in the folder in terminal for example, I can type:
sh script.sh potato 1234
script.sh is the script, potato is the filename, and 1234 is the port number. Works fine when I do it manually.
I tried adding a crontab, #reboot script.sh potato 1234, of course it didn't work, it couldn't find the script.
So I tried:
#reboot */path/to/my/script.sh* potato 1234
again, didn't work. Figured it couldn't find the database.
So I tried:
#reboot path/to/my/script.sh /path/to/my/potato 1234
Still no dice.
I tried running it in term with paths as well
sh path/to/my/script.sh potato 1234
of course failed - the script up and told me it couldn't find the db, as it should.
sh /path/to/my/script.sh /path/to/my/potato 1234 returned no errors, but it didn't start either.
This is what the script I'm trying to start looks like:
if [ $# -lt 1 -o $# -gt 2 ]; then
echo 'Usage: restart dbase-prefix [port]'
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -r $1.db ]; then
echo "Unknown database: $1.db"
exit 1
fi
if [ -r $1.db.new ]; then
mv $1.db $1.db.old
mv $1.db.new $1.db
rm -f $1.db.old.Z
compress $1.db.old &
fi
if [ -f $1.log ]; then
cat $1.log >> $1.log.old
rm $1.log
fi
echo `date`: RESTARTED >> $1.log
nohup ./moo $1.db $1.db.new $2 >> $1.log 2>&1 &``
Any clues?
You need to see the output of your program. cron mails the output to the owner of the crontab or to the address specified in the MAILTO environment variable, on top of the crontab.
Be careful about execution environment. Typically, most of the basic environment variables (PATH, HOME, etc.) will not be set, and might lead to execution errors.
For more information, see the cron man page:
man 5 crontab
These posts might also help you :
crontab PATH and USER
Where are cron errors logged?
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I have this bash script:
#!/bin/bash
rm /etc/stress.txt
cat /dev/smd10 | tee /etc/stress.txt &
for ((i=0; i< 1000; i++))
do
echo -e "\nRun number: $i\n"
#wait untill module restart and bee ready for next restart
dmesg | grep ERROR
echo -e 'AT+CFUN=1,1\r\n' > /dev/smd10
echo -e "\nADB device booted successfully\n"
done
I want to restart module 1000 times using this script.
Module is like android device witch has linux inside it. But I use Windows.
AT+CFUN=1,1 - reset
When I push script, after every restart I need a command which will wait module and start up again and execute script 1000 times. Then I do pull in .txt file and save all output content.
Which command should I use?
I try commands like wait, sleep, watch, adb wait-for-device, ps aux | grep... Nothing works.
Can someone help me with this?
I find the solution. This is how my script actually looks:
#!/bin/bash
cat /dev/smd10 &
TEST=$(cat /etc/output.txt)
RESTART_TIMES=1000
if [[ $TEST != $RESTART_TIMES ]]
then
echo $((TEST+1)) > /etc/output.txt
dmesg
echo -e 'AT+CFUN=1,1\r\n' > /dev/smd10
fi
These are the steps that you need to do:
adb push /path/to/your/script /etc/init.d
cd /etc
cat outputfile.txt - make an output file and write inside file 0 ( echo 0 > output.txt )
cd init.d
ls - you should see rc5.d
cd .. then cd rc5.d - go inside
ln -s ../init.d/yourscript.sh S99yourscript.sh
ls - you should see S99yourscript.sh
cd .. return to init.d directory
chmod +x yourscript.sh - add permision to your script
./yourscript.sh
I have script with name : run.sh
This is my script code :
#!/usr/bin/env bash
install() {
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
}
if [ "$1" = "install" ]; then
install
else
if [ ! -f ./tg/tgcli ]; then
echo "tg not found"
echo "Run $0 install"
exit 1
fi
#sudo service redis-server restart
#./tg/tgcli -s ./bot/bot.lua -l 1 -E $#
./tg/tgcli -s ./bot/bot.lua $#
fi
and when run this script give me output like this every second :
[09:54] 2014 Hello
[09:55] 2014 Hi
[09:57] 2014 How Are you ?
and many like this (thousands in hour !)
and my server get slow in 5 hour.
i check print commands in bot.lua but there are no way to remove print it.
can you add some codes to clear my script logs every 10 second ?
Thanks a lot.
My Script Output Doesn't Save Anywhere and Just Show me in terminal
I want a code such as clear command on linux terminal , clear my script logs every 10 minute or 5 minute.
After 5 day of script running i can (sometimes can't) login my server and my server get very slow and i must wait 3 or 5 minute to login my server and this amazing after login my server my server again get fast !
and i forgot say i use byobu screen for run my scripts and I think screen get my server slow down.
I don't think that something as simple as this would cause your server to slow down, but you can add a check to your script to calculate the size or line count of your log file every time it runs.
This function assumes you are redirecting your output to a log file. Set the variables to whatever makes the most sense.
log_check() {
line_count=$(wc -l $log_file | awk '{print $1}')
size_check=$(du -ax $log_file | awk '{print $1}')
max_file_size="1500"
max_file_length="1000"
if [[ $line_count >= $max_file_length || $size_check >= $max_file_size ]]; then
echo "" > $log_file
fi
}
I would also recommend using [[ ]] over [ ] since this is a bash script, as long as you don't plan in it being posix compliant and only plan on using it with bash [[]] is always better than [].
EDIT:
Since you are logging output to the terminal and not a file you can literally use the clear command in your script.
Try this out and see how the functionality works
for i in {1..20}; do
echo $i
if (( i == 10 )); then
clear
fi
done
I'm assuming your code has a loop somewhere, if not it will be a bit more complex to clear the terminal session. I'm not really sure what part of your code is actually printing anything to stdout, I'm guessing it's this piece here
./tg/tgcli -s ./bot/bot.lua $#
You could try something like this, which will background your initial process and then run clear every 60 seconds to clear the terminal window. Is there any reason you're not writing the output to a log file? That alone could solve some of your issues as well.
#!/bin/bash
./tg/tgcli -s ./bot/bot.lua $# &
pid="$!"
check_pid() {
ps -ef |grep "$pid"|grep -v 'grep' &>/dev/null
}
cnt=1
until ! check_pid; do
if (( cnt == 6 )); then
clear
cnt=1
fi
sleep 10
((cnt++))
done
I'm new to Ubuntu and bash scripts, but I just made runUpdates.sh and added this to my .profile to run it:
if [ -f "$HOME/bin/runUpdates.sh" ]; then
. "$HOME/bin/runUpdates.sh"
fi
The problem I'm having is, I want the script to run as if root is running it (because I don't want to type my sudo password)
I found a few places that I should be able to do sudo chown root.root <my script> and sudo chmod 4755 <my script> and when I run it, it should run as root. But it's not...
The script looks good to me. What am I missing? -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 851 Mar 23 21:14 runUpdates.sh*
Can you please help me run the commands in this script as root? I don't really want to change the sudors file, I really just want to run the commands in this script at root (if possible).
#!/bin/sh
echo "user is ${USER}"
#check for updates
update=`cat /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available | head -c 2 | tail -c 1`;
if [ "$update" = "0" ]; then
echo -e "No updates found.\n";
else
read -p "Do you wish to install updates? [yN] " yn
if [ "$yn" != "y" ] && [ "$yn" != "Y" ]; then
echo -e 'No\n';
else
echo "Please wait...";
echo `sudo apt-get update`;
echo `sudo apt-get upgrade`;
echo `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade`;
echo -e "Done!\n";
fi
fi
#check for restart
restartFile=`/usr/lib/update-notifier/update-motd-reboot-required`;
if [ ! -z "$restartFile" ]; then
echo "$restartFile";
read -p "Do you wish to REBOOT? [yN] " yn
if [ "$yn" != "y" ] && [ "$yn" != "Y" ]; then
echo -e 'No\n';
else
echo `sudo shutdown -r now`;
fi
fi
I added the user is to debug, it always outputs my user not root, and prompts for the sudo password (since I'm calling the commands with sudo) or tells me are you root? (if I remove sudo)
Also, is there a way to output the update commands stdout in real time, not just one block when they finish?
(I also tried with the shebang as #!/bin/bash)
setuid does not work on shell scripts for security reasons. If you want to run a script as root without a password, you can edit /etc/sudoers to allow it to be run with sudo without a password.
To "update in real time", you would run the command directly instead of using echo.
Its not safe to do, you should probably use sudoers but if you really need/want to, you can do it with something like this:
echo <root password> | sudo -S echo -n 2>/dev/random 1>/dev/random
sudo <command>
This works because sudo doesn't require a password for a brief window after successfully being used.
SUID root scripts were phased out many years ago if you really want to run scripts as root you need to wrap them in an executable, you can see an example on how to do this on my blog:
http://scriptsandoneliners.blogspot.com/2015/01/sanitizing-dangerous-yet-useful-commands.html
The example is how to change executable permissions and place a filter around other executables using a shell script but the concept of wrapping a shell script works for SUID as well, the resulting executable file from the shell script can be made SUID.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers
I have a file.sh with this, when run show : TERM environment variable not set.
smbmount //172.16.44.9/APPS/Interfas/HERRAM/sc5 /mnt/siscont5 -o
iocharset=utf8,username=backup,password=backup2011,r
if [ -f /mnt/siscont5/HER.TXT ]; then
echo "No puedo actualizar ahora"
umount /mnt/siscont5
else
if [ ! -f /home/emni/siscont5/S5.TXT ]; then
echo "Puedo actualizar... "
touch /home/emni/siscont5/HER.TXT
touch /mnt/siscont5/SC5.TXT
mv -f /home/emni/siscont5/CCORPOSD.DBF /mnt/siscont5
mv -f /home/emni/siscont5/CCTRASD.DBF /mnt/siscont5
rm /mnt/siscont5/SC5.TXT
rm /home/emni/siscont5/HER.TXT
echo "La actualizacion ha sido realizada..."
else
echo "No puedo actualizar ahora: Interfaz exportando..."
fi
fi
umount /mnt/siscont5
echo "/mnt/siscont5 desmontada..."
You can see if it's really not set. Run the command set | grep TERM.
If not, you can set it like that:
export TERM=xterm
Using a terminal command i.e. "clear", in a script called from cron (no terminal) will trigger this error message. In your particular script, the smbmount command expects a terminal in which case the work-arounds above are appropriate.
You've answered the question with this statement:
Cron calls this .sh every 2 minutes
Cron does not run in a terminal, so why would you expect one to be set?
The most common reason for getting this error message is because the script attempts to source the user's .profile which does not check that it's running in a terminal before doing something tty related. Workarounds include using a shebang line like:
#!/bin/bash -p
Which causes the sourcing of system-level profile scripts which (one hopes) does not attempt to do anything too silly and will have guards around code that depends on being run from a terminal.
If this is the entirety of the script, then the TERM error is coming from something other than the plain content of the script.
You can replace :
export TERM=xterm
with :
export TERM=linux
It works even in kernel with virgin system.
SOLVED: On Debian 10 by adding "EXPORT TERM=xterm" on the Script executed by CRONTAB (root) but executed as www-data.
$ crontab -e
*/15 * * * * /bin/su - www-data -s /bin/bash -c '/usr/local/bin/todos.sh'
FILE=/usr/local/bin/todos.sh
#!/bin/bash -p
export TERM=xterm && cd /var/www/dokuwiki/data/pages && clear && grep -r -h '|(TO-DO)' > /var/www/todos.txt && chmod 664 /var/www/todos.txt && chown www-data:www-data /var/www/todos.txt
If you are using the Docker PowerShell image set the environment variable for the terminal like this with the -e flag
docker run -i -e "TERM=xterm" mcr.microsoft.com/powershell
I'm creating a bash script that will run a process in the background, which creates a socket file. The socket file then needs to be chmod'd. The problem I'm having is that the socket file isn't being created before trying to chmod the file.
Example source:
#!/bin/bash
# first create folder that will hold socket file
mkdir /tmp/myproc
# now run process in background that generates the socket file
node ../main.js &
# finally chmod the thing
chmod /tmp/myproc/*.sock
How do I delay the execution of the chmod until after the socket file has been created?
The easiest way I know to do this is to busywait for the file to appear. Conveniently, ls returns non-zero when the file it is asked to list doesn't exist; so just loop on ls until it returns 0, and when it does you know you have at least one *.sock file to chmod.
#!/bin/sh
echo -n "Waiting for socket to open.."
( while [ ! $(ls /tmp/myproc/*.sock) ]; do
echo -n "."
sleep 2
done ) 2> /dev/null
echo ". Found"
If this is something you need to do more than once wrap it in a function, but otherwise as is should do what you need.
EDIT:
As pointed out in the comments, using ls like this is inferior to -e in the test, so the rewritten script below is to be preferred. (I have also corrected the shell invocation, as -n is not supported on all platforms in sh emulation mode.)
#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Waiting for socket to open.."
while [ ! -e /tmp/myproc/*.sock ]; do
echo -n "."
sleep 2
done
echo ". Found"
Test to see if the file exists before proceeding:
while [[ ! -e filename ]]
do
sleep 1
done
If you set your umask (try umask 0) you may not have to chmod at all. If you still don't get the right permissions check if node has options to change that.