error while using crond

[Christian 'CBE' Benner]

Dear gawk team,

I have a little problem and I guess it's a mistake on my side.
A wrote a message to Paul Vixie which could'nt help me in this case and
he's forwarding
me to your address whit my problem.

Now the problem:

I wrote a little bash script which gets an IP address (see the follwoing
line)

EXTIP=`/sbin/ifconfig eth0| /bin/awk '/Adresse/ { gsub(".*:", "", $2) ;
print $2 }'`;

If I run the script manually from shell it works fine
and $EXTIP reports the IP address given from ifconfig.

If the script is started from crond  with:

0-59/5 * * * * root /etc/ppp/ip-up.local >>/var/log/cron-ip-up

the $EXTIP is empty.

I asked in several groups but nobody knows something about this.

Have you any hint ?


Thanks in advance for your help.


Regards

Chris


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