s3cmd works on command line not on cron

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Ubuntu 9.10 is my linux distro
Based on forums they say that the problem is with environment .

here is my case:
login as user, then sudo -s
using this command: s3cmd put file s3://bucket >>worked!
now here is the simple script intended for testing:
#! /bin/bash
env >/tmp/cronjob.log
s3cmd put file s3://bucket
issuing the command crontab -e

          • /opt/script 2>&1 | logger

Then using tail to syslogs
Dec 3 23:22:01 ubuntu CRON[10795]: (root) CMD (/opt/script 2>&1 | logger)

But by verifying it on s3Fox Organizer, the file is not uploaded.

(I tried changing the #! /bin/sh (no effect), putting crons on /etc/crontab (no effect), setting HOME=/home/user (no effect)

What are other options to try? or other ways to debug this problem.

Thanks

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This question is so common that it's in the FAQ here. things run by cron have a different, very minimal PATH than things run in the shell and may not find things under /usr/bin and so forth. Call s3cmd by its absolute path.