Put your hats on for this one,,
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 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.
I chmod'd the files to go+w so everyone could write and then even
chgrp'd to uucp.
I have a feeling that somehow when cron executes it lacks some of the
ability of root when running programs.
Any ideas?
Michael C. Rock
Systems Analyst
Registered Linux User # 287973
"The time has come the walrus said to speak of many things,,"
"Christians give up what they cannot keep to gain what they cannot lose"
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