[TriLUG] e2fsck under cron gets retcode=8 operational error

[Alan Porter]

> Since the script runs fine from the CLI, I'm wondering if there's 
> something about running fsck under cron. I execute fsck with the 
> pathname (/usr/sbin/e2fsck) so there's no problem finding the executable.

See if there is something in your interactive shell profile that is 
changing things. Instead of calling the fsck command directly from cron, 
create a shell script that does a "source /etc/profile" and maybe a 
"source $HOME/.bash_profile" and maybe even "source .bashrc" (replacing 
"source" with "." as appropriate if your shell is not bash). Then run 
the fsck. Then exit $? to return the fsck return code back to cron.

See if that works... that might tell you if there is something in the 
path or some other bit that you're setting up when you log in, that is 
not being set up for cron.

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