On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Software Info wrote:
OK. So although the script is located in my home directory, it doesn???t start there? Sorry but I don???t quite understand. Could you explain a little further please?
Both 'cp' and 'ls' are located in /bin. But if I run the 'ls' command in /root, 'ls' can't find 'cp' (unless I tell it where to look) - even though /bin *is* in my PATH -
server7:/root # ls cp ls: cp: No such file or directory server7:/root # ls /bin/cp /bin/cpWhere the system looks for *commands*, to execute, is different from where it looks for other files, which those commands use. The latter is generally only the current directory (unless you tell it otherwise). When cron runs a script as root, "current directory" will be /root.
BUT - for security and other reasons, it would be better to have cron run your script as you (not root), and as '/home/me/myscript' (instead of adding your home directory to PATH in /etc/crontab).
-Walter
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