/etc/profile not being executed by cron job

[Al Goodniss <amg at townisp dot com>]

Hi,

Please point me to what I missed. I have a simple cron job doing backups using tar and find. Works flawlessly in an interactive shell. Cron also works fine for fetching mail, etc. The combination doesn't work. 

When I run my bash (tcsh also fails) script via Cron the wrong find is found. Instead of /usr/bin/find I get the windows version. My /etc/profile does prepend the directories, the permissions seen accurate - as per the other fixes that were in the archives. 

What did I miss? 

-Al

--- Test script ---
#!/usr/bin/bash

date

echo $PATH # reports only windows paths, no Cygwin
which find # Finds the win32 version


-- Results --
Thu Sep 25 12:08:00 EST 2003
/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/c/PROGRA~1/ULTRAE~1:/c/Program Files/Micros
oft SQL Server/80/Tools/Binn/:/bin
/c/WINDOWS/system32/find

-- /etc/profile --
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH"
export PATH

USER="`id -un`"

# Set up USER's home directory
if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
  HOME="/home/$USER"
fi

if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then
    mkdir -p "$HOME"
fi

export HOME USER

for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
    if [ -f $i ]; then
        . $i
    fi
done

export MAKE_MODE=unix
export PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007 \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ '

cd "$HOME"


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