Hello Jack,

Friday, December 27, 2002, 3:11:36 PM, you wrote:
of people is going to get upset

>> > 
>> > usually this sort of error is due to differing environment or
>> > permissions. If it's a user's crontab ($crontab -e) then you need to su
>> > to that user and debug from there. If it's root's crontab (#vi
>> > /etc/crontab) then make sure root can run it from command line.
>> > 
>> > Another possibility is that the network is fine when you're debugging,
>> > but congested by other traffic when your cron job runs. Try doing
>> > something less sensitive to network issues, like rsync'ing to a temp
>> > directory a couple of times, then tar'ing that temp directory to the
>> > tape.
>> >
>>
this is really starting to bug me,
I tried  the script below, runs from command line or clicking on icon,
but when run as cron job (as root) , it copies 2.9Mb and stops. there
are no errors in cron logs. AFIK it's not a network problem as no one else was
using it.
Unless I'm missing something obvious, it must be a bug with cron.
I have tried the same with 2 different networks, with the same
results. I'm using samba 2.2.6 on mdk9 with all the latest updates

#!/bin/sh
cp -rpuv /mnt/windows /mnt/hal

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