Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:03:10 -0400 From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to simulate a user's crontab? Message-ID: <CA5ED776-66DB-4877-883E-EC876ACF85CA@identry.com> In-Reply-To: <20080716113718.b165f10c.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <3BC71C1E-DD8B-4FD9-870A-A2D385E556C8@identry.com> <20080716113718.b165f10c.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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> > I'm guessing you're having problems with environment settings, > although > the vagaries of the question don't give me much to go on (something > along the lines of, "when I try to do x in cron, I get the error y; > but it works fine when the user runs it outside of cron" would be more > informative.) > Well, this got me thinking and I had to do some playing around to figure out what was wrong... The difference was that I was testing the command by su-ing into the user, rather than logging in as that user. What I didn't know was su does not change your environment, only permissions (as far as I can tell) So I was testing with my environment, but crontab was running under the other user's environment. I always thought that su user and login user were equivalent. Now I know better :-) Anyway, thanks for putting me on the right path. -- John
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