using crontab when running Splus

["Leeds, Mark" <mleeds@mlp.com>]

 if you're not famailar with the crontab then don't read further or

you will be wasting your time because this is what this email is about.

 

 when i run my  shell script ( which eventually after doing some other stuff runs a Splus program )

 at the unix prompt( not using the crontab ) , the job actually  runs fine.

 

when i run the job through the crontab, i made an error file because it wasn't working

and the error file contains "Splus License not available".

 

Since, I am able to run the job from the unix prompt and I know I have a unix license,

it must have something to do with the crontab causing the job to run

from a place where I don't have a unix license.

 

a unix guy here even told me to put the following which would force it to run

from a particular place but

this still didn't work

 

0,10,20,30,40,50   19,20,21,22,23,0,1   * * * ( cd /home/mleeds/ml/research/trading/signals; ./dsscreatesignals ) >> /tmp/dsscreatesignals.out 2>&1

 

does anyone know how to fix this problem ? Thank you very much.