Script Works, But Not with CRON

[Bob Stockler]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:24:10AM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
| On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:06:00AM -0400, Bob Stockler thus spoke:
| > The following script works _perfectly_ when excuted from
| > the command line, but fails when run by 'cron'.
| 
| > I added the statements "STATUS=${STATUS}$?" after each
| > filePro command to capture the exit values of each one,
| > and it returns "STATUS=101011" in email to me.  That
| > indicates all of the filePro commands except the "ddir"
| > one are failing.
| 
| > No other filePro processes are running when this is run.
| 
| > What am I overlooking?
| 
| 'ddir' runs SUID as root.
| 
| To me that indicates it could be permissions problem along the
| line, or it could be the user executing the cron jobs.
| 
| What version of *n*x are you using this script on.

SCO OSR 5.0.5 (the OS is not maintained by me, but by
Tom Parsons, who is _very_ thorough, so I'm sure it is
patched up-to-date).
 
| Is it one that has separate crons for each user, or is it one that
| puts everyting in one big pile.  If the latter make sure that the
| correct user is running the programs.

Separate crontabs, and it's being run from root's.

Bob

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