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?
Sure - it's pretty obvious that something in the environment is missing.
Try putting env in the cron job, or run the actual job as a shell script,
and in the script, put env and pipe that to a file, so that you can then
compare that with your env o/p as root.
mark