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On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 13:54, DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'
wrote:
> I seem to remember a post about cron not doing what the user
> did, and it was a shell issue.  Try your command in sh, csh, etc.,
> and see if you can get the same error from CLI, if so, then the
> shell is the issue.
> 
> Grasping a straw,


<snip>

> > Both fetch and curl work off the command line.  They also don't
> produce an
> > error when run from cron.  Neither one is actually getting the file
> though.
> >
> > What in the heck is it about cron that goofs these ports up??


It's almost certainly something to do with your environment settings -
cron is pretty bare. Make sure that you use full path names from within
the crontab and that your script explicitly sets any variables it needs.

> >



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