From: Daniel Baird <danielbaird@...>
Date: 2006-08-21T09:32:44+09:00
Subject: Re: syntax errors when job run from cron

On 8/21/06, Russell Fulton <r.fulton@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Well this is weird!  I'm used to odd problems when you run programs from
> cron but these are almost invariably to do with file permissions or
> stuff in the environment variables not matching the command line
> environment.
>
> I'm using ruby  1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux] on a RHE 3.0 system.
>
> The program runs fine from command line but gets nonsensical syntax
> errors when run from cron.
>
> Any idea where to look for the problem?

Check your paths, maybe?

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