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Subject: Re: Shell scripting woes
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mathias@haas.se wrote:

>Hello guys! I have two questions about shellscripts:
>
>
>2) The same backup job - is written as a bash script, and it works
>perfectly when run by hand, but it won't run as a cron job. 
>
Are you using a full path in the shebang at the top of the script? Such as:

#!/bin/sh

or

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

or whatever.

PWR.