From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-09-24T04:05:45+09:00
Subject: Re: net/ftp works manually, fails via cron

Jamey Cribbs wrote:
> Daniel Berger wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Ruby 1.8.2
>> Solaris 10, Linux 2.6.8
>>
>> I'm experiencing something odd with net/ftp.  When I run the following 
>> snippet manually it works fine.  Running the same snippet under cron 
>> seems to fail.
>>
>> I don't get any messages in the log file.  No indication whatsoever 
>> that there was a problem.  It's just that...nothing happens.  There is 
>> no file transfer as far as I can see when run via cron.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
> Some questions:
> 
> Did you add it to the root user's crontab or your user account's crontab?
> 
> When you run it manually and it works, are you running it as root or as 
> yourself?
> 
> In the crontab, did you specify the absolute path to both the ruby 
> interpreter and to your script file?

Nope, whoops, that was it.  I think I goofed the crontab, too, which is why I 
got no error message.

Sorry for the noise.

Dan