Shell script and Cron

[mark_nsx]

Hi there,

 

I have a script that pulls in a weather feed via FTP then writes the output to a file.

This script is run everyday at 3pm by cron.

 

Heres the shell script:

 

#!/bin/sh
HOST='ftp.weatheronline.co.uk'
USER='my username'
PASSWD='my password'
FILE='/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/_shell/weatherfeed.csv'

touch $FILE

ftp -n $HOST <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
get $FILE
quit
END_SCRIPT

 

and the cron job

 

* 12 * * * /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/_shell/getweatherfeed

 

And when the cron runs I receive the following error:

 

local: ./var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/_shell/weatherfeed.csv: No such file or directory

 

Im just confused why the script is not running as it should. The permissions on the folder _shell is 777.

Any help is much appreciated! I've been stuck on this problem for 2 days now  :'(

[burtybob]

Firstly I shall presume that you have put "mysite.com" to prevent spam and that in your real shell script you have put the proper one.

 

My second question, although maybe obvious, is does the file exist inside the folder? "No such file or directory" is generally when a file or folder is not located where you tell it to be? So have you tried navigating to that file manually? If that works then I am lost

 

Also the folder being 777 doesn't mean the file is 777