Hi,

What is the difference between the way a program runs in a browser or telnet
window and as a cron job?

Is it run as a different user? are rights changed when it runs as a cron
job?

We have a user who setup the cron job to retrieve his account information
from another website using curl in cgi script.The script works fine if it
runs in web browser or in telnet program but does not when it is run as
cron.It returns blank data.

curl -s -d "PassPhrase=$pp&AccountID=$account"
https://www.someurl.com/acct/balance.asp

What should be the possible cause?

Thanks

Andy

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Received on 2003-05-17