why is my gid different when I run my script under cron?

[Morgan Gangwere]

you have to su as _you_ or have scripts that can do the tasks as root
(ie "su root << rootpass")

On 3/5/07, Jerome Fong <jfong@successmetricsinc.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a script that works interactively.  However when I schedule it to
> run with cron, I encounter permission and environment issues.  I checked
> and even though my cron process has my user id, my group id is
> different.   Interactively, I have a gid=10545(mkgroup-l-d), but in my
> cron process, my gid=513(None).
>
> Is there something I need to set up for cron to include my group?  Is
> there something else I need to set so cron picks up my environment
> variables like PATH?
>
> thanks,
>
> Jerome
>
>
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