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the error message i'm getting is &quot;/home/sybase/myfile.sh: Exdecute permission denied.&quot;<br />
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as stated, i see other jobs firing other tasks from that folder that work fine. 
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the error message i'm getting is "/home/sybase/myfile.sh: Exdecute permission denied."

as stated, i see other jobs firing other tasks from that folder that work fine.

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genius........<br />
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I needed to make the file executable. thanks for the help - only wasted half my day playing with this. <br />
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and thanks for the thorough explanation. very helpful.
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genius........

I needed to make the file executable. thanks for the help - only wasted half my day playing with this.

and thanks for the thorough explanation. very helpful.

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experts,<br />
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i'm a complete novice at unix and am working my way through scheduling a scheduled task using crontab. i've created a .sh file that calls a .sql file that inserts one record into a database. if i run the .sh file using sh myfile.sh it works as expected. I added an entry to my crontab file to run the file but keep getting a permission denied error. looking at my crontab file I can see other entries there already, so I know the user i have has permissions. <br />
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what could i be doing wrong?<br />
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thanks in advance for the help. 
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experts,

i'm a complete novice at unix and am working my way through scheduling a scheduled task using crontab. i've created a .sh file that calls a .sql file that inserts one record into a database. if i run the .sh file using sh myfile.sh it works as expected. I added an entry to my crontab file to run the file but keep getting a permission denied error. looking at my crontab file I can see other entries there already, so I know the user i have has permissions. 

what could i be doing wrong?

thanks in advance for the help. 

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