On Tuesday 07 December 2010 14:34:33 James B. Byrne wrote:

> I have a fairly involved root cron task that I moved verbatim from

> another server. On the original server, this task ran without

> problem. On the new server, when this task runs via cron, which I

> confirm is happening by looking in the cron log, no files are

> transferred and no error is reported. However, if I copy cron

> command from roots crontab and paste it into a terminal session on

> the new server then the task runs to completion and the files are

> transferred.

>

> This task involves sshfs, fuse, and rsync and employs pki

> certificates for authentication. The fact that it works from the

> shell without alteration and yet not from cron is the issue.

>

> Does anyone have any idea where I would start to track down what is

> going on?

Check the paths in cron. They are not necessarly the same as the paths for the shell.

Tony