I can't reproduce this, but my guess is that some ls option is being set in /etc/profile. The cron jobs don't source /etc/profile. You could source /etc/profile in your cron job with ". /etc/profile" and see if that makes it work.
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark D Pace Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: cron oddity? I've written a rexx program to run under cron to do clean up on a directory. It runs fine when I run it myself, but it fails under cron. Trace output from the cron run job shows "sudo ls -lGgh /srv/ftp/pub" "-r--r--r-- 1 14M Nov 7 16:02 GE_Mainline_Ansys ver2.ppt" HUH? when I do it manually the output is "sudo ls -lGgh /srv/ftp/pub" "-r--r--r-- 1 14M 2006-11-07 16:02 GE_Mainline_Ansys ver2.ppt" If I manually do an ls command I get the format with the date as yyyy-mm-dd. Why would the ls command under cron get a date format of Month Day? Very confused.... Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 Office: 850.219.5184 Fax: 888.221.9862 http://www.mainline.com This e-mail and files transmitted with it are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not one of the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you received this message in error, please immediately notify sender by e-mail, and destroy the original message. Thank You. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
