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.

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