Re: cron problem

Ola,

On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 16:01 -0500, Richard Reina wrote:
> If I cut and paste the exact command from crontab -l and execute the
> prgram manually from the console I don't get this error.  I don't
> understand why cron has this problem?

It isn't a problem with cron. It's not finding something in your path
that it needs.

do this:

env | grep PATH

Take the line that gives you, and then add it to the top of the crontab
file.

Also, if you set the MAILTO variable in cron, you'll get the emails (or
whomever will) for it's output.

Here's what mine looks like:


PATH=/home/scott/bin:/opt/metasploit3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
[email protected]
30 * * * * "/opt/metasploit3"/bin/msfupdate > /var/log/msfupdate.log 2>&1
1 * * * * /usr/bin/svn update  /opt/metasploit3/msf3/ >> /var/log/msfupdate.log 2>&1
*    *    *    *    *     cd /var/www; php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1


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