Thread: curl doesnt work in crontab

Dear All,
Following is a simple shell script that I've written in order to upload a file on to a ftp server using "curl". When I run this manually the system compress the files and send the tar ball on to the FTP location without any hassle. However when I put this script on crotab the line containing the ftp upload doesn happen but the tar ball is getting created. Following is the script.

#!/bin/bash

BACKUPDIR=/usr/local/
CONTENT1=/usr/local/etc/squid
BACKUPFILE=squid.backup.`date +%F`

tar -czvf $BACKUPDIR/$BACKUPFILE $CONTENT1

cd $BACKUPDIR
curl -v -T squid.back*

#END

only the curl part doesnt work. I guess this has something to do with the crontab. Can someone help out please? Oh this is how my crontab entry looks and the job is run by root.
10 11 * * * sh /usr/local/sqbkup.sh

Thank you very much.

Hello,
Try adding the full path the curl executable. I highlighted it in red. Also use the full path for the variable also in red.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

BACKUPDIR=/usr/local/
CONTENT1=/usr/local/etc/squid
BACKUPFILE=squid.backup.`date +%F`

tar -czvf $BACKUPDIR/$BACKUPFILE $CONTENT1 


/usr/bin/curl -v -T $BACKUPDIR/squid.back* 

#END

EDIT:
Also curl is used for transferring URLS, I don't see any FTP parts happening in your script. You can probably use cp command instead of curl.

HTH,
jaysunn

Dear Mr Jaysunn,

Thank you very much for your advice sir. When I specified the full path of the curl utility things started to fall in place. The ammended directive now looks like the following.

/usr/local/bin/curl -v -T squid.back*

Again thank you very much.

Great News,
Glad we got this sorted out.

Jaysunn