when you use a shell script this run on the specific shell whith the user ambient path because is to diferent run a script on cron or tty i put the complet path on all comand than i use!,
## /sbin/prog1 -d /home/pedro /bin/prog2 -frp > /home/pedro/filename.txt ## sorry for my eanglish Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote .. > Hello > > Hans du Plooy (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I have setup a cron job (on woody) to run apt-get update and apt-get > > install once a week to do security updates. > > > > I get the following: > > > > dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. > > dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH. > > dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH. > > dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH. > > dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH. > > > > I thought that cron would run as user cron, but there's no such user. > > Who does it run as? > > Normally jobs are run under the user id in the crontab file, or, if the > job is run from a user crontab, under that user's id. > > > Or how can I set the path that cron has access to? > > By setting the PATH in your cronjob script. > > best regards > Andreas Janssen > > -- > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 > Registered Linux User #267976 > http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
