[lug] cron question

[Ken Kinder]

I think the reason is security/clarity. "echo" won't work because it's
not a command, it's s shell command.

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:34:19PM -0600, Michael Wegener wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Does cron need a full path specified for commands? I run cron with a
> mixture of scripts (where I specify the full path and which run fine)
> and PATH-resident commands that can be run from the command line (i.e.
> echo and sitecopy). All show up in the cron logs, but "sitecopy" and
> "echo" never run  and I can't figure out why there should be a
> difference. Any ideas what I'm missing?
> 
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