On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Rock wrote:
> I have a shell script program that when I run it as root the program
> works flawlessly. So, I put it in cron to run every hour. When cron
> runs the program it appears to screw up a simple cp command and the
> results are not what I expect.
What is the command, and how is it different?
> What ends up being copied is not what is in the file to be copied, but
> rather it seems to copy a file that is a part of the finished file. If
> that makes sense. I manipulate data until it is in the form that I want
> and then copy the finished data file to another directory for use.
>
> Run from a command line as root, the programs works just fine.
Guess: Some environmental variable is different when run by cron than when
run manually. Run 'env | sort > file1' from cron, then 'env | sort >
file2 ' by hand, and compare (diff, comm, or whatever).
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