[rescue] IBM LVD drive in SS20

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:02:32PM -0600, Geoff Koehler wrote:
> Thanks guys, it works!  Heres another problem which I cant figure out. 
> Im trying to use  cron to run a webcam script on an old indy.  OS is
> IRIX 5.3.  The commands in the crontab run fine when run by hand but
> fail to run from cron.  Logs show that cron executes the commands with
> no error, but yet the script doesnt do anything....   v. strange...  OS
> problem?  Brain not working??

Is any part of the script dependent upon, or sensitive to, having a real
tty?

I'd amend the script to dump its environment to a file in, say, /tmp
then compare that to your actual logged-in environment and looks for
significant omissions or disparities.


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