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question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Cron script Exec format error up vote 1 down vote favorite My cron job/script fails. I'm running mythbuntu 14.04. With previous version of Mythbuntu I have a problem, any help would be greatly appreciated! I set up cron.daily with: $ ls -la /etc/cron.daily -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 183 May 12 18:00 mc2xmlUpdate $ cat mc2xmlUpdate SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin;/home/username # m h dom mon dow user command 36 17 * * * root /home/username/mc2xml/update.sh File update.sh: #!/bin/sh /home/username/mc2xml/mc2xml /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --refresh all --file --sourceid 1 --xmlfile /home/username/mc2xml/xmltv.xml cp /home/username/mc2xml/xmltv.xml /media/sdc1/DataShare/ I'm getting a Exec format error when I run: $ run-parts -v /etc/cron.daily run-parts: executing /etc/cron.daily/mc2xmlUpdate run-parts: failed to exec /etc/cron.daily/mc2xmlUpdate: Exec format error run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mc2xmlUpdate exited with return code 1 cron share|improve this question edited May 13 '15 at 22:56 asked May 12 '15 at 23:30 BobcatJoe 337 2 It looks like you're confusing /etc/crontab with the files in /etc/cron.daily/ run by /etc/crontab. Aside from that, what are you expecting ~ to expand to when root runs the script? –steeldriver May 13 '15 at 0:01 @BobcatJoe So simply place update.sh into your /etc/cron.daily directory –solsTiCe May 13 '15 at 22:59 Thanks, I see my issue was that I was using ~ instead of the full path. I assume the ~ is the current user and cron runs as root? –BobcatJoe May 13 '15 at 23:13 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 0 down vote accepted Files in cron.{daily,hourly,weekly...} are not in the crontab format, but scripts or executables that are directly exe
set, or doesn't exist yet) it will cause problems. So, even if your script is set to be executable (chmod +x), you'll receive an error like:
Exec format error
Just such a case manifests itself when using a script through cron (and run-parts). To remedy this problem put the following at the beginning of the script:
#!/bin/sh
That way, the system will know what to use when executing the script. Posted by Brian O'Neill at 7:28 http://askubuntu.com/questions/622941/cron-script-exec-format-error AM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest 23 comments: Jonathan said... Perfect, just the answer I was looking for. Thanks for publishing this tip. November 24, 2010 at 3:02 AM prashanth said... thanks brian November 25, 2010 at 5:12 PM gene_kultpower said... Tanks for that hint, saved me some time :-) December 25, 2010 at 10:28 PM http://brianoneill.blogspot.com/2009/07/exec-format-error-in-cron.html Chris said... Just spent several hours trying to solve an "Exec format error" in someone else's code. Turned out I hadn't initiated the shell. Thanks for posting this solution! :) August 23, 2011 at 9:56 AM Tim said... This error type is not restricted to cron - I've just found it with ruby (via Puppet) September 20, 2011 at 12:38 AM Ashis said... It realy works,, it was very helpfull November 28, 2011 at 1:15 AM Z3rogate said... THX March 30, 2012 at 3:12 PM Z3rogate said... This comment has been removed by the author. March 30, 2012 at 3:12 PM blogger said... Thank you very much Brian !you got a point !contact at reneriffert dot com April 16, 2012 at 8:04 AM Ken Fritz said... Dude, from an ex-coworker - Thanks! This was a good hint on debugging an Asterisk script I was working on. Hope all's well. September 23, 2012 at 10:35 PM David Thomas said... Thanks, this helped solve an issue I was having with an anacron/cron scriptFor others looking, error message was: run-par
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topics Post Reply Print view Search Advanced search 3 posts • Page 1 of 1 Fortron Posts: 10 Joined: Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:10 pm Cron quotacheck Quote Postby Fortron » Mon Nov 30, 2015 8:15 am When manually running cron it returns:executing /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck/etc/cron.daily/quotacheck:run-parts: failed to exec /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck: Exec format errorrun-parts: /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck exited with return code 1Adding t#!/bin/sh to /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck solved this part.Next it retuns this:quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint / so quotacheck might damage the file.Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking.run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck exited with return code 6Is there any harm in adding the -f parameter? Top skurudo VestaCP Team Posts: 6116 Joined: Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:23 pm Location: Moscow Contact: Contact skurudo ICQ Website Facebook Google+ Skype Twitter YouTube Re: Cron quotacheck Quote Postby skurudo » Thu Jan 21, 2016 8:23 am Fortron wrote:quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint / so quotacheck might damage the file.Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking.run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck exited with return code 6viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10007Fortron wrote:Is there any harm in adding the -f parameter?It can be. -> DigitalOcean competition - please, support us-> fix for phpmyadmin - nice and sweet now Top jonn Posts: 71 Joined: Sun Jun 08, 2014 12:18 pm Re: Cron quotacheck Quote Postby jonn » Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:52 pm I'm also curious at why /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck is running quotacheck -um / everyday and sending a error email..Code: Select all/etc/cron.daily/quotacheck:
run-parts: failed to exec /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck: Exec format error
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/quotacheck exited with return code 1
running it from the command line produces that warning quotacheck: Quota for users is enabled on mountpoint / so quotacheck might damage the file.Please turn quotas off or use -f to force checking., so why do we need the cron running if we a