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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script doesn't work as expected when run on cron Post 302235551 by zaxxon on Friday 12th of September 2008 06:40:39 AM
Old 09-12-2008
Make sure your environment is the same by sourcing your .profile (wherever your needed variables are set in) etc. when starting it via cron, like
Code:
. ~/.profile

# here comes the script...

If you are still having problems, put a "set -x" in the beginning and check the verbose output of your cronjob.

Also use [ code ] and [ /code ] tags when displaying scripts in the forum please, thank you.
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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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       lintian-info --tags tag ...

DESCRIPTION

       The lintian-info command parses the output of the lintian command and gives verbose information about the listed Lintian error tags, parses
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