Re: cron problem

Hello All,

Thanks much for the replies thus far. When I do:
[root@tomsawyer richard]# env | PATH

I get:

PATH:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin

Are you saying that I should put that exact line including the word PATH at the top of cron file like this?

PATH:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
1 9 * * 1 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/src/scripts/inactive.pl
1 14 * * 1-6 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/src/scripts/upcoming.pl

 


---- Linux Users Of Northern Illinois \(Chicago\) - Technical	Discussion <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
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> 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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