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&gt; Does cron have a different enviroment to command line<br />
Yes. Usually problem is in env PATH variable. Script run from command line has it's commands in PATH, while run from cron has not.<br />
SOmetimes, commands requires TTY - cron supplies none.<br />

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> Does cron have a different enviroment to command line
Yes. Usually problem is in env PATH variable. Script run from command line has it's commands in PATH, while run from cron has not.
SOmetimes, commands requires TTY - cron supplies none.


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TTY - text terminal<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tty" rel="ugc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tty</a>
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TTY - text terminal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tty [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tty]

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Havent I mentioned about env variables?<br />
Whatever...<br />

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Havent I mentioned about env variables?
Whatever...


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This crontab entry works fine on command line but as i put it in cron it errors:<br />
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20060616 15:03:00 ##### tidy_backup.sh: Starting Process<br />
20060616 15:03:00 ##### tidy_backup.sh: Exporting ORACLE_SID as IF9P1<br />
20060616 15:03:00 ##### Obtaining Passwords<br />
20060616 15:03:00 ##### tidy_backup.sh: ERROR &nbsp;!! PLEASE INVESTIGATE !!!<br />
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Does cron have a different enviroment to command line
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This crontab entry works fine on command line but as i put it in cron it errors:
with
20060616 15:03:00 ##### tidy_backup.sh: Starting Process
20060616 15:03:00 ##### tidy_backup.sh: Exporting ORACLE_SID as IF9P1
20060616 15:03:00 ##### Obtaining Passwords
20060616 15:03:00 ##### tidy_backup.sh: ERROR  !! PLEASE INVESTIGATE !!!

Does cron have a different enviroment to command line

Why does it work on command line but no cron ?

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