I assume this is in your raymond user's crontab? It /should/ be running in your home directory, but maybe you need to add a cd before running mv (or use absolute paths in your mv) You could append " 2>&1 /path/to/some/log" to the line in your crontab to get output/errors into a log to try troubleshooting that way. Else, I don't immediately see any obvious errors On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 12:48 PM <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > I have a simple bash script (ws.sh), with the following 2 commands: > > #!/bin/bash > > tshark -i enp1s0 -a duration:60 -w /home/raymond/capture.pcapng > > wait > > /home/raymond/movit.sh > > Movit.sh: > > > #!/bin/bash > mv capture.pcapng $(date +%F-%H:%M)1.pcapng && touch capture.pcapng > echo "All Done!" > > The first command always works properly but the second does not run via > cron. However, running the script (ws,sh) via the command line executes > properly. I have tried sleep and wait between commands but nothing works, > so far. > > Ideas? > > > > Raymond Norton > LCTN > 952.955.7766 > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20191023/2125ef2b/attachment.html>