cron hell

I am in cron hell. There is no other explaination for it. According to my hosting service there is no reason for my script not to be working - and yet it still isn’t.

They have verified my shebang at the top of the script and crontab command. The script when called with a browser - connects and runs perfectly. When called by the cron: at the initial database connection - the error “DB Error: not found” is thrown. All the database connection information is verified and the script was pulled up again threw the browser just to make sure. Again it works. (user has all GRANT permissions and the DB name is verified as correct.)

GRRRR - What the hell is going on? If anyone has any ideas please let me know. This puzzle is driving me nuts.

FYI - the site is a shared hosting.

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