Re: cron path problem

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Hans du Plooy (<hansdp@newingtoncs.co.za>) wrote:

> I have setup a cron job (on woody) to run apt-get update and apt-get
> install once a week to do security updates.
> 
> I get the following:
> 
> dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
> 
> I thought that cron would run as user cron, but there's no such user. 
> Who does it run as?

Normally jobs are run under the user id in the crontab file, or, if the
job is run from a user crontab, under that user's id.

> Or how can I set the path that cron has access to? 

By setting the PATH in your cronjob script.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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