[lug] cron shell debian

[Garett Shulman]

I may be wrong but I think that cron runs without any environment 
variables. This sounds like it may be the source of your problem. You 
could modify your script to run like a daemon (with a sleep 3000s or 
whatever) instead of as a cron job.

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?
>
> Gary
>
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