Script Works, But Not with CRON

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Tue May 4 21:18:33 PDT 2004


Bob Stockler wrote:
[...]
>   TERM=ansi ; PFTERM=ansi ; PFPROG=/u/appl ; PFDATA=/u ; PFDIR=""
[...]
> But, surprise of surprises, "script.err" held:
> 
>   *** A System Error Has Occurred ***
>   /pcfiles2/filepro/invtry/keyx1: Permission denied
> 
>   Standard Input Redirected
[...]
> I don't know where it got "/pcfiles2" (that's a directory
> in the root filesystem where Windows users store their PC
> files) for $PFDATA$PFDIR or where "keyx1" came from.
> 
> Back to the drawing board tomorrow.

Is "/pcfiles2" a mounted filesystem?  (Type "/etc/mount".)

Is PFDSK set for normal logins?  I see that you don't set it in the
cron script.

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