Re: Problem cron job not converting excel files

[Andreas Guelzow <aguelzow pyrshep ca>]

Looking at the CMD, everything between (), what is the last argument supposed to achieve, ie the file with extension .sh?

Andreas

A J Guelzow

On 2010-12-10, at 19:40, Raja Iskandar Shah <rajaiskandars gmail com> wrote:

this is all that i have under /var/log/syslog (log for cron under ubuntu)

Dec 10 19:00:24 iskandar-thinkpadx100e kernel: [36179.653096] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:4, bEnableHT = 0
Dec 10 19:02:24 iskandar-thinkpadx100e kernel: [36299.649520] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:4, bEnableHT = 0
Dec 10 19:04:01 iskandar-thinkpadx100e CRON[5001]: (root) CMD (ssconvert --recalc --import-type=Gnumeric_OpenCalc:openoffice --export-type=Gnumeric_stf:stf_assistant -O 'sheet="etlclient_eids" format=raw quote=""' /opt/eids_etl/MOF-EIDS2-ETL-Configuration.ods /opt/eids_etl/etlclient_eids_1.sh)
Dec 10 19:04:24 iskandar-thinkpadx100e kernel: [36419.651040] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:4, bEnableHT = 0
Dec 10 19:06:24 iskandar-thinkpadx100e kernel: [36539.650656] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:4, bEnableHT = 0
Dec 10 19:08:24 iskandar-thinkpadx100e kernel: [36659.650970] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:4, bEnableHT = 0
Dec 10 19:10:24 iskandar-thinkpadx100e kernel: [36779.650938] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:4, bEnableHT = 0
Dec 10 19:12:24 iskandar-thinkpadx100e kernel: [36899.650066] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:4, bEnableHT = 0
Dec 10 19:14:01 iskandar-thinkpadx100e CRON[5044]: (root) CMD (ssconvert --recalc --import-type=Gnumeric_Excel:excel --export-type=Gnumeric_stf:stf_assistant -O 'sheet="etlclient_eids" format=raw quote=""' /opt/eids_etl/MOF-EIDS2-ETL-Configuration.xls /opt/eids_etl/etlclient_eids_2.sh)
Dec 10 19:14:24 iskandar-thinkpadx100e kernel: [37019.654852] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:4, bEnableHT = 0
Dec 10 19:16:24 iskandar-thinkpadx100e kernel: [37139.652925] rtl8192_SetWirelessMode(), wireless_mode:4, bEnableHT = 0
Dec 10 19:17:01 iskandar-thinkpadx100e CRON[5071]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)

i am having the same problem also with converting to .csv with separator=,

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org> wrote:

You need to give us some solid information to work with.
Error messages from /var/log/messages or email or wherever
your cron puts them would be a good start.

M.

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