Interpreter in cron shell scripts

[Kwinzi]

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Hi there.

I have set up a shell script which I am trying to run via cron. The first lines of the script are..

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/mysqldump....

When it runs I get the error

/bin/sh /home/myusername/scriptname.sh: /bin/sh
:bad interpreter: No such file or directory


I also tried #!/bin/bash and get the same error except it says sh: /bin/bash (as you'd expect!)


My question is what do I need to do to tell it what interpreter to use?

Thanks,

BTW, I've been live now for just over a week and have put in place a monitoring service. 100% uptime and response time from the UK mostly less than 1/10th of a second. Fantastic service so far - thanks very much.

[AlexP]

I have set up a shell script which I am trying to run via cron. The first lines of the script are..

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/mysqldump....

When it runs I get the error

/bin/sh /home/myusername/scriptname.sh: /bin/sh
:bad interpreter: No such file or directory


I also tried #!/bin/bash and get the same error except it says sh: /bin/bash (as you'd expect!)

My question is what do I need to do to tell it what interpreter to use?

You won't have a privilege to run a script with /usr/bin/ or /bin/bash interpreter due to which you are getting such error. We do offer SSH access only on our few servers , on which you can run such type of bash/shell scripts . I would like to recommend you kindly use the simple php script to make the backup of your databases. Let me know if you want PHP mysqldump script.

[Kwinzi]

Well, it didn't like blank lines in the shell script, but oce I'd got rid of them it worked fine. Many thanks.

[Rock]

Well, it didn't like blank lines in the shell script, but oce I'd got rid of them it worked fine. Many thanks.

The blank lines in the Linux scripts are formed when creating scripts on Windows machines

[Kwinzi]

Oops, replies got crossed.

I don't mind running a PHP one - its just that I found something in these forums that said while you didn't offer SSH to shared hosting a/cs but that shell scripts could still be run as cron jobs which was fine for my needs.
If Alex and Eric get together to decide what I am allowed/not allowed to do then I will comply.

[AlexP]

Oops, replies got crossed.

If Alex and Eric get together to decide what I am allowed/not allowed to do then I will comply.

Eric had given Jailshell access to your cpanel user then run the script, definitely it should work as I told in my previous post . But we don't provide Jailshell access on this server in which currently your account is hosted.

Let me know if you need any help to configure PHP script to take a backup of your databases.

[Kwinzi]

Hi there,

I have just gone in this morning and someone has removed all my cron jobs - not the actual scripts - just the entry in the crontab or whatever you call it. Most of them were PHP scripts so clearly nothing to with shell scripts as discussed in this thread.

Investigation shows it happened about 07:20 yesterday morning (12th Nov).

Whats going on please!