Cron Job failure with aaccli

[Bart Silverstrim]

Hello,

I have a Dell 6250 with the perc3/di RAID controller in it and a fresh  
install of FreeBSD 4.9-release.  I used the aaccli utility from the  
ports collection and a script I found when googling around for a cron  
script that worked with the sell utility.

I modified the script so it would open the correct device and point to  
the right applications (the script was for a Linux installation with  
Sendmail; I am running FreeBSD with Postfix).  You have to run a series  
of commands to create a "seed" file with the default, working RAID  
output from aaccli.  This worked fine.  I created a backup of it,  
altered a line in it to make a subsequent test look like something was  
wrong with the RAID system.

I run the script itself from the shell, it emailed me an alert.
I run the cron script from sh (because the redirect of output is in sh,  
not tcsh), it runs fine and emails an alert.
Cron runs the script, aaccli hangs as if the input is getting munged?   
the script hangs in the process list and I have to kill aaccli for the  
script and aaccli to disappear from the process listing.

I've checked by putting in a cron entry that just echos the shell in  
use to a file from cron and it is running with sh.  If I run the cron  
script or the actual script from sh (as root I just run "/bin/sh" and  
run it from that prompt) they both run fine.  So why is aaccli hanging  
when cron tries to run it?

The link to the script I've adapted is  
http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/domsch/aacraid/ 
aacraid_monitoring_script.txt

Anyone out there know what is causing it to hang??

-Bart Silverstrim