On 5/4/2010 3:04 AM, Tonmaus wrote:
Hi,
How do I make sure that a script is running the same commands that the user
owning the crontab from where I am running it?
Example: As it seems, when I run the same script from bash, manually i.e.
/usr/gnu/bin/cp is used, and when the script is executed from cron, it will use
/usr/bin/cp. That duality is annoying for me, as cp has different fucntions in
both cases. What will be the best way to fix this, for the home-grown stuff
specifically, other than finding out for each command by try-and-error.
Thanks for help.
Tonmaus
This is an excellent example of why we should get into the habit of
writing scripts calling commands explicitly. That is, change your
references of "cp" to explicitly call "/usr/gnu/bin/cp". This also
ensures other people calling the script get the same behaviour. It also
protects against $PATH changes. I still forget this at times.
There was also a post on blogs.sun.com about how this can possibly speed
up the script.
Rainer
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