Script won't run from cron

From: Andrew McNaughton (andrew_at_scoop.co.nz)
Date: 05/21/04

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    Since upgrading from 4.5-RELEASE to 4.8-RELEASE (actually rebuilding the
    system and mounting the old /home directory), I'm having problems with a
    process which rebuilds a search engine index. Everything runs fine from
    the command line, but the same script fails when running from cron.

    The /bin/sh script runs, but when it goes to fire up the indexing process,
    that process fails. So far I can't figure out what is different about the
    environment this is running under which should make it behave differently
    from cron.

    I've added commands into the shell script which report on the output of
    set, id and limits. At the command line I've then verified that id and
    limits give identical values, and I've used 'env' to start the script with
    the same environment varibales it gets in cron. That proceeds corectly,
    leaving me with still no idea why the same script doesn't run from cron
    any more.

    Any ideas?

    Andrew McNaughton

    Please mail me responses directly. 

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