[lug] cron shell debian

[Warren Sanders]

Gary Hodges wrote:

> I have a sarge install where a shell script works if I run it from the 
> command line, but doesn't when run as a cron job.  It has #!/bin/sh as 
> the first line.  If I put absolute paths in the shell script it 
> works.  How can I change this globally, rather than using explicit 
> paths in the script?
>

Yes this is one way as one of the first lines in your crontab:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin