Re: cron path problem
when you use a shell script this run on the specific shell whith the user
ambient path because is to diferent run a script on cron or tty
i put the complet path on all comand than i use!,
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/sbin/prog1 -d /home/pedro
/bin/prog2 -frp > /home/pedro/filename.txt
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sorry for my eanglish
Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote ..
> 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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