osascript command fails when run by cron

[wzpgsr]

Any ideas why this script would mount the volume when the parent script is run from the command line, but not when run from cron?

#!/bin/sh

if [ ! -d "/Volumes/backup" ]; then
/usr/bin/osascript /Users/me/Library/Scripts/src/mount_backup_nfs.txt
fi

The contents of the 'mount_backup_nfs.txt' look like this:

tell application "Finder"
open location "nfs://backup/path/to/backup"
end tell

[escowles]

The usual reason that scripts that work from the command line would fail from cron is that cron has a different environment than the regular command line -- the path, environment variables, etc. must be explicitly included, there is no terminal, etc.

Since the paths are all absolute, I would guess that the lack of a terminal is the problem. I would try one of two things:

1. Use /sbin/mount_nfs to mount the NFS share.
2. Not use cron -- Find some GUI scheduling tool that would run in the dock.

-Esme

[mervTormel]

any errors? check console?

also, you might want to add some stderr redirection to that sh script.

that might give you some more to go on

something like

exec 2>/pathto/errs.out

at the top of your cron'd script

then look in errs.out for what happened.

maybe some sort of osascript quoting issue? ima dunno.

[wzpgsr]

Thanks for the suggestions. The script doesn't work when cron'd because the applescript is telling the Finder to do something: cron doesn't have an instance of the Finder running! I am using mount_nfs now instead of the applescript.