Re: start-stop-daemon: command not found error when running cron job

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Marion Hall:
> I'm trying to stop a wget process after a set amount of time with the
> following command from a crontab.
> 
> start-stop-daemon --stop -n wget
> 
> When this command runs, I get the following error and it doesn't stop wget:
> /bin/sh: start-stop-daemon: command not found

So tell it where start-stop-daemon is?

  (0) keeling /home/keeling_ which start-stop-daemon
  /sbin/start-stop-daemon

cron runs with a minimal environment and likely doesn't have /sbin in
its PATH.


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