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

[Jerome Fong]

I forgot to note that the directory I am writing into is a shared 
directory on a different machine which only my windows XP user has 
privileges to write into.   But my uid and gid matches when I run 
interactively and in batch, so I'm confused.  Is there anything else it 
is restricting?

thanks,

Jerome

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).
> 
> 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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