hi guys , i want to run jar file using crontab -e here is the following : my jar file is in my home directory which is : /home/shoaib/my.jar I m using IBMJava2-142-ia32-SDK-1.4.2-8.0.i386.rpm which is installed in /opt/IBMJava2-142 now i want to schedule my jar file to run every monday at morning . here is my cron entry : 30 11 * * * /opt/IBMJava2-142/bin/java -jar /home/shoaib/my.jar could u please tell me wats wrong with that command and my back-end database sever is IBM DB2 9.0. this command is run normally but when i schedule it through cron it didn't run, waiting for your response . Regards, Shoaib
Please try to use full paths in /home/shoaib/my.jar. Cron's environment variables are a bit different from what you have on the shell.