Script produces different result when executed by Bash than by cron

Question

Please consider following crontab (root):

SHELL=/bin/bash
...
...
0 */3 * * * /var/maintenance/raid.sh

And the bash script /var/maint

Answer 1

cron tasks run in a shell that is started without your login scripts being run, which set up paths, environment variables etc.

When building cron tasks, prefer things like absolute paths and explicit options etc