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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cron job fails, but works fine from command line Post 302239825 by Guyverix on Wednesday 24th of September 2008 12:58:48 PM
Old 09-24-2008
Any chance that it is due to not having a full path? As I recall cron does not normally set up the entire environment including path data.
 

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SYSTEMPAPERNAME(3)					     Library Functions Manual						SYSTEMPAPERNAME(3)

NAME
systempapername, defaultpapername, systempapersizefile, defaultpapersizefile - return names for managing system paper information SYNOPSYS
#include <paper.h> const char* systempapername(void) const char* defaultpapername(void) const char* systempapersizefile(void) const char* defaultpapersizefile(void) DESCRIPTION
systempapername() returns the name of the default paper to be used by a program. This name is obtained by looking in that order at the PAPERCONF environment variable, at the contents of the file returned by systempapersizefile() or by using defaultpapername() as a last chance. defaultpapername() returns the name of the default paper to use if it is impossible to get its name from the environment. systempapersizefile() returns the path of the papersize file to use. This path is obtained by looking at the PAPERCONF environment vari- able or by calling defaultpapersizefile(). defaultpapersizefile returns the path of the default papersize file. ENVIRONMENT
PAPERSIZE Paper size to use regardless of what the papersize file contains. PAPERCONF Full path to a file containing the paper size to use. FILES
/etc/papersize Contains the name of the system-wide default paper size to be used. SEE ALSO
papersize(5) 17 September 2001 SYSTEMPAPERNAME(3)
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