cron vs. command line

[c2ssupport]

I have a major problem. I can execute a shell script fine
from the command line, but in cron, it starts and hangs
in the middle running some proprietary processes.
What is the difference between running from cron and command line?

please help...
mike d.

 

[SamBones]

The [tt]crond[/tt] daemon is usually running in a Bourne shell and does not have your environment set. That means your cron job should specify the shell you want on the first line (something like)...

#!/bin/ksh

...and you need to make sure all environment variables you are expecting are defined in the shell script.

Hope this helps.