Re: GNU install issue

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

[...snip...]

   creating
   /home/mrich/nightlybuildtape/securetape/install/usr/include/neoscale/sys

   install: invalid user `-g'

[...snip...]

   Any Idea why this fails only when run as a cron job?

Given the vauge information it is impossible to give a exact response.
But it seems that you are passing the incorrect number of flags to
install.  Maybe your script uses a variable, and it is empty, i.e.

install -u $(FOO) -g $(BAR)

Where FOO is empty and BAR is either empty or defined to something
useful (hence why you get invalid user `-g').

   if this is not the correct list to post this question please
   redirect me to the correct list.

bug-coreutils@gnu.org might have been better (see the output from
`install --help').