[gdal-dev] gdal_grid does not work in cron but works in terminal

[Travis Kirstine]

Are you root when you successfully run it in the terminal? Could it be an
issue with the root user environment when running it in the cron?

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 05:52, davorinbajic <davorinbajic at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I use the gdal_grid interpolation command. When I work in the terminal
> everything works perfectly. However, when I try to run the command in the
> bash script from cron then it does not work.
>
> Bash script (/root/interpolation/interpolation.sh):
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> gdal_grid -ot Float64 -of GTiff -outsize 750 750 -a
>
> invdist:power=2.0:smoothing=0.0:radius1=0.08:radius2=0.08:angle=0.0:max_points=0:min_points=0
> /root/interpolation/today.vrt /root/interpolation/out/today.tif
>
> I also tried the path to gdal_grid
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> /usr/bin/gdal_grid -ot Float64 -of GTiff -outsize 750 750 -a
>
> invdist:power=2.0:smoothing=0.0:radius1=0.08:radius2=0.08:angle=0.0:max_points=0:min_points=0
> /root/interpolation/today.vrt /root/interpolation/out/today.tif
>
> Virtual file (/root/interpolation/today.vrt)
>
> <OGRVRTDataSource>
> <OGRVRTLayer name="today">
>     <SrcDataSource>/root/interpolation/today.csv</SrcDataSource>
>     <GeometryType>wkbPoint</GeometryType>
> <LayerSRS>WGS84</LayerSRS>
>     <GeometryField encoding="PointFromColumns" x="X" y="Y" z="eto"/>
> </OGRVRTLayer>
>
> CSV (/root/interpolation/today.csv)
>
> id,X,Y,eto
> 1,17.11400986,43.59461212,5.284
> 2,16.01515388,44.38002777,5.636
> 3,19.3653698,44.19543839,6.823
> 4,17.25690269,44.1989975,6.041
> 5,18.53639221,43.60323715,6.452
> 6,16.9213295,45.12902069,6.95
> ...
>
> CRON
>
> PATH='/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin'
>
> 39 10 * * * /root/interpolation/interpolation.sh
>
> Error
>
> Usage: gdal_grid [--help-general] [--formats]
> [-ot {Byte/Int16/UInt16/UInt32/Int32/Float32/Float64/
>       CInt16/CInt32/CFloat32/CFloat64}]
> [-of format] [-co "NAME=VALUE"]
> [-zfield field_name]
> [-a_srs srs_def] [-spat xmin ymin xmax ymax]
> [-clipsrc <xmin ymin xmax ymax>|WKT|datasource|spat_extent]
> [-clipsrcsql sql_statement] [-clipsrclayer layer]
> [-clipsrcwhere expression]
> [-l layername]* [-where expression] [-sql select_statement]
> [-txe xmin xmax] [-tye ymin ymax] [-outsize xsize ysize]
> [-a algorithm[:parameter1=value1]*]    [-q]
> <src_datasource> <dst_filename>
>
> Available algorithms and parameters with their's defaults:
> Inverse distance to a power (default)
>
>
> invdist:power=2.0:smoothing=0.0:radius1=0.0:radius2=0.0:angle=0.0:max_points=0:min_points=0:nodata=0.0
> Moving average
>     average:radius1=0.0:radius2=0.0:angle=0.0:min_points=0:nodata=0.0
> Nearest neighbor
>     nearest:radius1=0.0:radius2=0.0:angle=0.0:nodata=0.0
> Various data metrics
>     <metric name>:radius1=0.0:radius2=0.0:angle=0.0:min_points=0:nodata=0.0
>     possible metrics are:
>         minimum
>         maximum
>         range
>         count
>         average_distance
>         average_distance_pts
>
> FAILURE: Neither -sql nor -l are specified
>
> Note that it works in the terminal but it does not work in cron. Does
> anyone
> know what the problem is?
>
>
>
>
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