Ugh, this turns out to be because cron doesn't source the controls bashrc that defines where to find caget and all that jazz that many commands depend on. This is probably also why the AutoMX cron job isn't working either. 

Also, cron automatically emails everything from stderr to the email address that is configured for the user, which is why the n2 script blew up the foteee account and why the AutoMX script was blowing up my email yesterday. This can be avoided by doing something like this in the crontab:

0 8 * * * /bin/somecommand >> somefile.log 2>&1

(The >> part means that the standard output is appended to some log file, while the 2>&1 means send the standard error stream to the same place as stdout)

I made this change for the n2 script, so the foteee email account should be safe from this script. I haven't figured out the right way to set up cron to have all the right $PATH and other environment stuff, such as epics may need, so the script is still not working.