Still having problems with cron writing to a restricted directory

[Jerome Fong]

Hi there,

Sorry, but I am totally confused now.  I have a script that creates a 
new sub-directory and copies files over to the new sub-directory.  My 
problem is, the directory where this sub-directory is supposed to be 
created is restricted.  Only I have have write permissions to the 
directory, everyone else has read privileges.

When I run my script interactively, the sub-directory gets written. 
However, when I run the same script under cron, I get the following error:

mkdir: cannot create directory `/builds/test': Permission denied

I search everywhere but there doesn't seem to be a similar issue. I read 
that cron runs scripts under a different user, and tried adding
"su - test_user" to my script as suggested.  I made sure my uid and gid 
matched in my cron and interactive logs and the environment "env" 
matched up.  But I still cannot get my sub-directory created within cron.

Help!


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