On Wednesday 10 January 2007 16:38, fredex wrote:
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:03:47PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 11:48, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I have a problem, Steve. Running that command from a root konsole
> > > works fine, so I set it to run as a cron job every Wednesday. Now I
> > > find that from both boxes where I set this up I'm getting root emails
> > > that say
> > >
> > > /bin/sh: tmpwatch: command not found
> > >
> > > What could be wonrg?
> >
> > Use the full pathname. /usr/sbin/tmpwatch
>
> Thanks, Ed. That seems to have cured it - at least 'Run now' worked
> fine. I just assumed that it would be on root's path, so didn't need the
> full pathname.
>
> Anne
Anne:
You may find it helpful to look at the man page for crontab(5) (man 5
crontab), as it tells how to set up a proper environment for cron jobs. The
implication is that you don't have a full envrionment set up when cron runs
a job.
Thanks, Fred. Someone sent me an off-list message to that effect. Another
new concept for me :-)
Anne