[lug] cron shell debian

Nick Golder nrg at nirgo.net
Tue Aug 16 15:24:46 MDT 2005


On 2005-08-16 15:16 -0600, 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?
> 

Have you tried setting the PATH at the start on your crontab?

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

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-Nick Golder



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