cron problem for getting the time

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Grateful if anyone could answer my question

The script called time.sh try to retrive the server time on another server and write into a files named "abc.123" as show below.

time.sh

#!/bin/sh
telnet 10.122.38.109 13 | tail -1 >/tmp/abc.123

The result when run on console or any active prompt is expected
Tue Jul 31 16:15:57 2007

However, when the script set as a cron, there is no time is being logged
Escape character is '^]'.

Could someone please give me a hand on this issue. Thank

regards,
darkrainbow

2

can you try with tail -3

3

give the entire path of telnet in the script that u r putting in the cron....
i mean do a 'which telnet' and find out the path of telnet. Give this in ur script...

4

It did not log down any time information at all

more abc.123

Trying 10.122.38.109...
Connected to 10.122.38.109.
Escape character is '^]'.

5

The script has been amended
#!/bin/sh
which telnet >/tmp/abc.123
telnet 10.122.38.109 13 | tail -3 >>/tmp/abc.123

and here is the result

/usr/bin/telnet
Trying 10.122.38.109...
Connected to 10.122.38.109.
Escape character is '^]'.