Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I have a script running on a Solaris 8 box and the first thing it does it check which user is executing it;

Code:

if [ "$( /usr/xpg4/bin/id -un)" != "testuser" ]; then
   echo "This script must be run as testuser" 1>&2
   exit 1
fi

This works fine when manually running the script however when adding into that users' crontab it errors out within /var/mail/testuser saying;

I'm guessing cron must assume the role of whatever crontab it is running, but can anyone explain why this hasn't worked and if there is a way around it?

Thanks

Hi.

I would start by replacing $( ... ) in your if statement with `...` (backquotes).

The cronjob will run in the default shell of the user who's cronjob it is. But it won't load your .profile, etc. so you might want to do that, either in the job definition, or in the script itself (assuming that is, that there is more to your script that we see here).