[sllug-members]: Cron and permissions

[Brandon Toone]

Is the execute bit set on the script cron is expected to execute? - Yes

> ls -al /home/backup/bin/get_backups.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 backup archive 715 Apr 20 16:26
> /home/backup/bin/get_backups.sh
>

Are there any relevant entries in /etc/cron.allow or /etc/cron.deny? - No

Does the cron script in question set up the same environment [...]? - The
script does not set up anything relating to the environment as I am not a
very good shell programmer and did not think to do so.  What are some things
I would want to set up?  Source the .bash_profile?

Thanks for your suggestions so far.

On 8/11/06, Walt Haas <haas at xmission.com> wrote:
> "Brandon Toone" <btoone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am able to log in as a user and manually run a script by copy + paste
the
> > exact same command listed from the output of "crontab -l" but for some
> > reason when cron tries to run it by itself it errors with a permission
> > denied.  Does cron run as a separate user than the one with the
job?  Where
> > else would I look to track down this type of permission issue?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > -b
>
> Is the execute bit set on the script cron is expected to execute?
> Are there any relevant entries in /etc/cron.allow or /etc/cron.deny?
> Does the cron script in question set up the same environment, in the
> relevant aspects, as the user gets when logged in?
>
> -- Walt
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