Script Works, But Not with CRON

[Bob Stockler]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:18:33AM -0400, Ken Brody wrote:
| 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.

I think maybe you and Keith Weatherhead have detected my
oversight.  PFDSK is set to "/u" in the environment for
all regular users, but 'cron' isn't a regular user.

Its absence in the script would explain why it works from
the command line, but not when run by 'cron'- that being
the significant difference in the environment in which it
runs under those two conditions.

I'll set it in the script and see what happens tonight.

Thanks all . . .

Bob (kicking himself in the head over that oversight)

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