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John Rumpel
John Rumpel

Reputation: 4615

Shell-Script: Cronjob vs. user rights

probably an easy question, but I am confused:

When I run the following script manually, it works fine. While I am not running this script as user git but as user X I am able to use the ls and du commands which are applied to git users home directory. If I try to run this script in a cronjob, these two commands are not regular invoked, don't know why. The first "extern" invocation of a cmd-file works perfect in both cases and yields a regular output.

What I've noticed: I am just able to run the script as user X with ./runbackup.sh and it is stored in the users home directory.

Cron runs with user X's privileges.

Confusing ... :/ ... any ideas ?

Script: runbackup.sh:

#!/bin/bash

/cygdrive/e/xp-batches/backup.cmd > info.log
echo "### CURRENT HOMEDIR ###" >> info.log
ls -gh --block-size=K /home/git >> info.log
echo "### SIZE ###" >> info.log
du -hs /home/git >> info.log
email -s "Backup Status" [email protected] < info.log

Upvotes: 0

Views: 184

Answers (1)

yankee
yankee

Reputation: 40810

Better not assume anything about the environment that cron supplies you with. Use full paths:

/bin/ls -gh --block-size=K /home/git >> info.log

instead of just "ls".

Oh and maybe use an absolute path instead of info.log as well.

Upvotes: 1

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