GoDaddy Cron Job issue with Shell and Perl Script

Question

i created a Cron Job on my GoDaddy Server, named "SponUpdate.sh"

here is the code for this file

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/perl /home/content/14/5959214/html/cgi/JLLoadSponFRJ.pl
/usr/bin/perl /home/content/14/5959214/html/cgi/JLLoadSponMGJ.pl
/usr/bin/perl /home/content/14/5959214/html/cgi/JLLoadSponCAD.pl
/usr/bin/perl /home/content/14/5959214/html/cgi/JLLoadSponCJB.pl

Now the issue is when this cron Job Runs it says me following Error,

"/bin/sh: /var/chroot/home/content/14/5959214/html/cgi/SponUpdate.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied"

here is the code for one of Perl File "JLLoadSponFRJ.pl"

my $command = '/web/cgi-bin/php5 -q $HOME/html/GISJobs/JLLoadSpon.php';
exec ($command) or print STDERR "couldn't exec $command: $!";

i am unable to resolve it from last 3 days,

Please help me,

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Seems obvious `...Permission denied`. Contact your administrator. — Luc M, Oct 12 '12 at 13:07
i asked godaddy team but its uselessy they asked me to ready there support link Here's a link: What is a Cron Job?. — Shabi, Oct 12 '12 at 13:13
Try changing from bash to sh in your script. Maybe you don't have permissions for bash, but do for sh. — Craig Treptow, Oct 12 '12 at 13:26
@CraigTreptow now i am using the following code in my .sh file `#!/bin/sh /usr/bin/perl /home/content/14/5959214/html/cgi/JLLoadSponFRJ.pl` still same error , Permission Denide — Shabi, Oct 12 '12 at 14:08
This script has permission to execute (run), right? chmod +x SponUpdate.sh If not that, then I think your back to GoDadddy support. — Craig Treptow, Oct 12 '12 at 14:17
@Shabi - that was a command to execute, assuming you have access to a command shell with Go Daddy. — Craig Treptow, Oct 12 '12 at 15:40
Try formatting the cron job command like such: /bin/bash $HOME/html/example.sh — Mike_GoDaddy, Oct 16 '12 at 22:44

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '12 at 14:40

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So you're launching a cron job that runs a bash script that calls some perl scripts that call php. Why don't you just call php directly from cron?

Check that your bash script does not contain "\r\n" line endings: You might be trying to invoke "/bin/bash\r" instead of "/bin/bash"

answered Oct 12 '12 at 14:40

glenn jackman

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here is my code please check if there is ny \r or \n `#!/bin/bash /usr/bin/perl /home/content/14/5959214/html/cgi/JLLoadSponFRJ.pl /usr/bin/perl /home/content/14/5959214/html/cgi/JLLoadSponMGJ.pl /usr/bin/perl /home/content/14/5959214/html/cgi/JLLoadSponCAD.pl /usr/bin/perl /home/content/14/5959214/html/cgi/JLLoadSponCJB.pl` – Shabi Oct 12 '12 at 14:56
actually the reason to not adding PHP script in .sh file is code is on more then 2000 lines and database connection etc – Shabi Oct 12 '12 at 15:04

Micromega · Answer 2 · 2012-10-12T14:37:50.547

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You can check the bash path with

which bash

and then you can correct the shebang !#/bin/bash of the perl script.

edited Oct 12 '12 at 14:37

answered Oct 12 '12 at 14:31

Micromega

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thanks for your answer, would you please let me know how i can use this script ? `which bash` and how i see the response ? becasue i am a PHP developer – Shabi Oct 12 '12 at 14:54
which is a unix program; you need a terminal account to use this program. – Micromega Oct 12 '12 at 15:16
how can i check the unix programe? as i already told you that i am not much familier with UNIX etc – Shabi Oct 12 '12 at 15:25
@shabi: when you type php -v in terminal gives it version number and cli mode support? – Micromega Oct 12 '12 at 15:35

GoDaddy Cron Job issue with Shell and Perl Script

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