mac Can't launch shell script via server schedule (MacOSX Server & FM 13)

[mdenyse]

Hi all,

 

I’m trying to execute a shell script from a FileMaker Server schedule. FM 13 and MacOSX Server 10.8. It’s a simple script to put a message in the syslog to test. Running from the Terminal app works fine but from within FM Server it doesn’t seem to kick off (no error messages anywhere I can find).

 

Things to consider:

 

- MacOSX Server 10.8 and FileMaker Server 13

 

- File is in the right location (/Library/FileMaker Server/Date/Scripts/) as I'm able to select it when creating the schedule

 

- fmserver is the owner and fmsadmin is the group of the .sh file

 

- I’ve tried permissions of 755 and 777

 

- File contents (following 2 lines):

#!/bin/bash

syslog -s -l error "This is a test."

 

- I’ve tried #!/bin/bash and #!/bin/sh

 

- Running from the terminal app works as expected - I see the message in the Console app (using either /bash or /sh)

 

- When I run the server schedule, FM server's Event.log file shows:

  2015-04-03 11:12:27.866 -0400 Information 146 XXXXXXXX Schedule "test" run now by "YYYYYYY".

 

  There's no succeeding line of a process ID being spawned so it looks like it's not even trying to execute the script.

 

- The server schedule has the default settings for the account (fmserver)

 

Anyone have any bright ideas of why this isn’t working?

 

Mark

[sparky3903]

Hey, I am having a similar issue trying to run an AppleScript. I get the Aborted by user error.