Resolved Run cron task command with arguments

[eliamarsura]

Hi
I create a script with bash that's need some arguments

I try to schedule this on plesk panel but it is executed without arguments.

The command look like this:

bash /root/myscript.sh argument1 argument2 argument3

If I execute the script from shell everything work fine (argument1 become $1 and so on), but if I put this inside Scheduled Tasks (Cron jobs) in plesk it doesn't read the arguments.

 

[Kaspar]

If I am not mistaken you don't have to prepend the command with bash. Just /root/myscript.sh argument1 argument2 argument3 should work.

 

[eliamarsura]

Hi @Rasp
I've already did it but it doesn't work, I really don't understant why

Anyone have an idea?

 

[Kaspar]

Sorry to hear it didn't work. Did you try to output the results of the cronjob to a log file for debugging/analysis purposes?

 

[eliamarsura]

In /var/log/syslog I see just this:

Feb 22 15:41:27 shcl-d8687 crontab[20092]: (root) LIST (root)

I have't found other log files to check.
Did you know where I can look?

 

[Kaspar]

Sorry, I meant that you output the content of your script to a file to log for your own debugging purposes.

I've created a quick bash script for testing. For me using arguments in the cronjob seem to work fine.

#!/bin/bash
# Set script permission: chmod +x argument.test.sh

echo "Argument: "${1}

My cronjob settings look like this:


This outputs: Argument: hello

 

[eliamarsura]

Finally I found the solution!
The problem wasn't the arguments but the plesk command

I had to use

/usr/sbin/plesk ext sslit --certificate -issue -domain $1 -registrationEmail $2 -secure-domain -secure-mail -secure-webmail -wildcard

instead of

plesk bin ext sslit --certificate -issue -domain $1 -registrationEmail $2 -secure-domain -secure-mail -secure-webmail -wildcard

If I use "plesk bin" directly on command line it's work, but it doesn't work if I pass trough cronjob