issues with pmlogger_daily via cron

I am trying to debug an issue with pmlogger (we are using version 3.9.10-1 in SLES 11) while running via cron. Not sure if anyone else has ran into this. 
It seems to be an issue with char width limit in cron. I cannot reproduce this while running via command line. Any suggestion on how to debug this? I added set -x in pmlogger_daily and in pmnewlog. 

Here's a snippet of the set -x output where my hostname turns into "loca" from "local" 




+ _message looking 

+ case $1 in 

+ /bin/echo -n 'Looking for pmlogger (process 63142) ...' 

Looking for pmlogger (process 63142) ...+ ps -efw 

+ false 

+ /usr/bin/gawk --posix '$2 == 63142 && /pmlogger/ { print }' 

+ '[' -s /tmp/pcp.pkokQMTHh/out ']' 

+ true 

+ echo ' found' 

found 

+ true 

+ cat /tmp/pcp.pkokQMTHh/out 

root 63142 1 0 Feb13 ? 00:00:50 pmlogger -r -U root -m pmlogger_daily -l /var/log/pcp-storage/pmlogger.log -h loca 

++ /usr/bin/gawk --posix '{ print $2 }' 

+ pid=63142 

++ sed -n -e '/ -h /{ 

s/.* -h // 

s/ .*// 

p 

}' 

+ hostname=loca 

++ echo loca 

++ sed -n -e '/@/{ 

s/.*@// 

s/:.*// 

p 

}' 

+ proxyhost= 

++ echo loca 

++ sed -n -e '/@.*:/s/.*;//p' 

+ proxyport= 

+ '[' -n '' ']' 

+ pmlc_prefix= 

+ false 

+ args='-r -U root -m pmlogger_daily -l /var/log/pcp-storage/pmlogger.log ' 

+ false 

+ '[' -z loca ']' 

+ args='-r -U root -m pmlogger_daily -l /var/log/pcp-storage/pmlogger.log -h loca ' 

+ '[' -z /var/lib/pcp/config/pmlogger/logger.config ']' 

+ '[' -n '' ']' 

+ args='-r -U root -m pmlogger_daily -l /var/log/pcp-storage/pmlogger.log -h loca -c /var/lib/pcp/config/pmlogger/logger.config ' 


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