On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 01:58:34PM -0700, Steven Schoch wrote: > > > Here's some new information: I ran amdump on the command line, after "su > amanda". It sucessfully connected to marge (although it failed with "can't > switch to incremental dump" as expected). The exact same command fails > when run from cron. This leads me to believe that either: > > 1. It's a timing issue; or > 2. There is something different in the environment when run from cron.
Indeed there very likely are significant environment differences. Cron jobs are run without .profile/.*rc file processing, with /bin/sh, even if that is not the users login shell, and with a minimal PATH setting. There has been at least one instance on the list of multiple installations of amanda. Login environment executed one, unexpectedly, cron jobs executed another. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)