What I'm left wondering is:
- Why you are relying on PATH expansion for this from something as
critical as a cron job. It is good sysadmin practice to specify explicit paths for situations like this rather than to worry about whether or not there is a good or valid reason for there being 2 ftp clients installed on the system.
That was precisely my thought. I often noticed that people find it easier to blame others rather then questioning and rethinking their own actions...