[UNIX-WIZ] automount under cron

Greetings Wizards!

I am scratching my head on a cron/automount conundrum. I have a script
that runs fine when I run it by hand but fails under cron. Usually
that means some environmental var is not being picked up. But what
environment controls automount?

OS is Solaris 8. /abc is automounted from our central NFS server to
nearly all our boxes. I want to put the report output there so we can
see it easily.

The script is pretty straight-forward:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
# this is the report script

Today=$(/usr/bin/date “+%Y%m%d”)
cd /abc
cd report_out
/usr/local/bin/report > $Today

This runs in root cron at 06:15 every morning. The only output I am
getting though is a mail saying “/abc does not exist”.

Why does it fail to automount? It runs fine by hand or under at (but
of course at keeps the environment).

Thanks,
Kai


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