Cron cpio failure

[pam196]

Hi

I am experiencing problems with a cronned cpio backup routine. Basically the routine echos inprogress to a flag and starts to run cpio on the server. At the end of the routine it should echo OK into the flag file - however it doesn't. Running the job manually results in success 100% of the time. How can I identify the problem further, or has anyone come across a similar problem with cron jobs against manual ones?

The cron job is in roots cron, so I'm pretty sure its not a permissions problem. When I run the job manually, I also run it as root.

Cheers

 

[KenCunningham]

Possibly the problem is that cron doesn't have it's own environment variables, even when run as root. To make it behave as it does from the crontab, include the line:

. /.profile (note the space between . /, it's important)

in your script.

This should then pick up the necessary PATH variables etc. HTH.

 

[pam196]

Cheers for the quick response, I'll give it a go!

Phil