I built the following shell script to bring up a pptp tunnel, grab a
file via rsync, change some perms, and bring the tunnel down. When I run
it directly logged in as root, I don't get problems.
/usr/sbin/pon det-cle && \
sleep 3
ppp0_address=$(/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep addr | awk '{print $2}' | sed
-e 's/addr://')
/sbin/route add -net [deleted].0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw $ppp0_address
/usr/bin/rsync -avzD --progress --stats --password-file
~/[deleted] [EMAIL PROTECTED]::[deleted-path]
chown [deleted-user]:[deleted-group] ~[deleted-user]/[deleted-file]
chmod 600 ~[deleted-user]/[deleted-file]
chmod 700 ~[deleted-user]
/sbin/route del -net [deleted].0 netmask 255.255.255.0
/usr/sbin/poff det-cle
However, when I run it from cron as the same shell script (and redirect STDERR
and STDOUT to files):
ppp0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
Which means I get errors throughout the rest of the script.
What I don't understand is why this runs fine when I run it directly but not
when I run it as a cron job.
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