cron job not fully working

[rtkluttz]

I have a script that builds output to a temporary file with quota warnings for users approaching quota. I get two different results with it.

When running the script manually as the zimbra user, it works as expected. But when the exact same script runs from the cron task it generates the email but does not populate the output of the quota warnings.

Where exactly are the error logs for these cron jobs? I can see cron in general firing off in syslog, but nothing specific about this one anywhere that I can find.

[DualBoot]

Hello,

with your description it seems to be a problem about rights. You should be able to run your cron manually with its user associated with to get the error.
You can also add some options in your script to log error.

Regards,

[rtkluttz]

Unless I am misunderstanding that is what I'm doing when I run the same script as the zimbra user.

From my understanding when it runs as a cron job it runs in the context as the zimbra user and when I run it as that, it completes fully with no errors and properly puts the temp file contents into the email.

[rtkluttz]

I have even added a > logfile.log to the end of the line in my cron and not getting any useful output, it just spit out an empty file. Can someone please tell me where I can look to get useful diagnostic info on why running the script as zimbra works but letting it fire via cron as zimbra fails (partially).

Again, the script fires, but when fired via cron the contents of the temp file do not get inserted into the body of the email the same way they do when I run it manually. The email gets generated and the non-changing portion gets emailed in the body... just the temp file contents don't go.

[DualBoot]

Can you show us the content of the cron ?
Regards,