This story has a happy ending!
I was able to convince my host that the CGI wrapper they were using for crontab would not run command-line scripts as if they were truly on the command line, due to certain environment variables. I gave them nph-build.cgi and nph-verify.cgi as examples. Rather than ask me to "fix my scripts" to fit their environment, they elected to remove the offending environment values for commands using their "command-line" in their wrapper.
As a result, the utilities are working properly. My thanks go to all who contributed to identifying and solving this problem.
Alan Frayer
Don't just read the news - make the news!
Your World News - http://yourworldnews.frayernet.com

I was able to convince my host that the CGI wrapper they were using for crontab would not run command-line scripts as if they were truly on the command line, due to certain environment variables. I gave them nph-build.cgi and nph-verify.cgi as examples. Rather than ask me to "fix my scripts" to fit their environment, they elected to remove the offending environment values for commands using their "command-line" in their wrapper.
As a result, the utilities are working properly. My thanks go to all who contributed to identifying and solving this problem.
Alan Frayer
Don't just read the news - make the news!
Your World News - http://yourworldnews.frayernet.com