[CentOS] difference between cron and shell invocation.

Tue Dec 7 14:34:33 UTC 2010
James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>

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?



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