Hi Gurus,
I need to run a script every saturday at 7:05 PM. Below command is working in x86_64.
05 19 * * 6 /apps/informatica/scripts/inf_rest.ksh
However when I tried in HP-UX it is giving the below error.
crontab: error on previous line; unexpected character found in line.
Please shed some light on this.
Regards,
Sam
You have a "junk" character in your crontab somewhere. Or a poorly formed command line. You should only change crontab entries with the
crontab -e
command - or maybe vi if you know what you are doing.
Please post the the output of
crontab -l
Often the junk is a trailing blank line in the crontab
Probably delete this cronjob and recreate same without any trailing space or lines. I have heard that HP-UX use more traditional crontab validations.
The easy way to generate that error message from a crontab command is when the crontab contains something like:
SHELL=/usr/bin/shell
HP-UX crontab doesn't like lines which are not normal schedule lines or comment lines.