Printer format different when runnng job from cron

[Donald Thaler]

We have a job that prints student transcripts, and whe we run it within the application the printing is ok. When we run the same job with the same input parameters from cron we get a .lis file that is not formatted the same. For some reason every page after page one has an additional 7 blank lines at the top of each page. Why would running a print job from cron cause this weird behavior? We're on hp ux 11i.

[harry d brown jr]

cron jobs do not have the same ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES that a user would have, which means you need to determine what variables the cron job needs, and add them to the script!

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