Ubuntu 11.10 Cron Job fails With - Not Found

Question

I have a script that is supposed to run hourly. It was working fine for a while and then it seemed to stop working after some system updates were applied. At that point it stopped working and presented the error below in /tmp/greatscript.log

/bin/sh: /home/administrator/greatscript.sh: not found

Here is the crontab. Really basic, it should work no problem.

2 * * * * /home/administrator/greatscript.sh >/tmp/greatscript.log 2>&1

Here's where it gets really weird, I just realized that if administrator is logged in, the cron fires and the script works great. But if administrator is logged out:

/bin/sh: /home/administrator/greatscript.sh: not found

Did you install ubuntu with an encrypted home directory? What is the output of the mount command when administrator is logged in. — becomingwisest, Jan 12 '13 at 21:23

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 12 '13 at 23:36

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Move the script to some unencrypted location like /usr/local/bin/.

answered Jan 12 '13 at 23:36

grassroot

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Ubuntu 11.10 Cron Job fails With - Not Found

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