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

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Mon Mar 5 23:53:00 GMT 2007


Jerome Fong 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).


What specifically are the permission and environment issues you see?  You
know, for example, that you won't get the same environment running a script
under 'cron' as you will interactively, right?


> 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?


If you have a specific environment that you want when you run this script
from 'cron', you need to include it as part of the script (or source it in).
If you're having further problems, I recommend reading and following the
problem reporting guidelines found at the link below prior to any follow-up.
Also take a read through the cron man pages and a good 'cron' user's guide.

<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.

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