It only errs out if I run the script every 15 seconds (not show in post). The script was designed to run every 15 seconds and if a ping failed it runs tshark for a minute. We have a very evasive network issue, that comes and goes in a minute or less and needed a way to run a capture in the moment. I set the script to run every minute, instead and everything works fine, outside of the problem occurring 15 seconds later and ending before the next minute :) Thanks for checking From: "Joel Breazeale" <joel.breazeale at gmail.com> To: "tclug-list" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2019 7:54:26 PM Subject: Re: [tclug-list] bash script not working properly I'll bite. I notice you use capture.pcapng in Moveit.sh. How about fully qualifying the path with /home/raymond/capture.pcapng? Are you getting an error message from the failure? If so what is that error? 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 _______________________________________________ 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/20191024/7b2c7aa2/attachment.html>