Script runs from command line, but not from cron

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Issue

  • An ftp script running on RHEL 4 Update 8 runs from the command  line, but has an error that it is unable to find a license file when run  from cron.

  • The ftp client vendor says the following environment variables when  added to the cron script corrects the issue when running under Solaris

    • LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1

    • LC_MESSAGES=C

    • LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1

    • LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1

    • LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

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