Issue with svn update using cron job.

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I want to update svn code using a nightly job using cron, i have created a job in cron as,

30 17-19 * * 1-5 /home/saprab/svnUpdate.sh <branch> <svnusername> <svnpassword> >> <logfile> 2>&1

svnUpdate.sh :

#!/bin/bash
branch=$1
svnuser=$2
svnpass=$3
cd ${branch}
svn update --username ${svnuser} --password ${svnpass}

i am getting error in logfile as "svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '.'; please get a newer Subversion client"

if i run the same shell script from command line it updates the code where as using cron job its not updating the code.

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Check with the commands which, whereis which one you are using in interactive mode and compare with the one of cron (likely in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin...).
You may be using an alias also (to a more recent version...)

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which svn --version
GNU which v2.16, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2003 Carlo Wood.
GNU which comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
This program is free software; your freedom to use, change
and distribute this program is protected by the GPL.

whereis svn
svn: /usr/bin/svn /usr/local/bin/svn /usr/share/man/man1/svn.1.gz

please suggest....

---------- Post updated 11-07-12 at 02:23 AM ---------- Previous update was 11-06-12 at 09:38 AM ----------

thanks vbe i have figured it our with your help, when i was using cli to run it was using /usr/local/bin/svn while using cronjob it was using /usr/bin... so i have changed in my script to right path. :b: