Thanks so much for all the replies. It was true that I had to hardcode every path but thankfully it is working now. Really appreciate the assistance.
Kind Regards SI From: Richard Mackerras Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 11:53 AM To: Software Info Cc: Walter Cramer; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Jonathan Chen Subject: Re: Crontab Question In your script put a few commands outputting to a check file pwd > /tmp/checkfile Add a few more like ENV >> /tmp/checkfile Just to make sure it really is in the directory you expect with the environment you expect. If you want it to be run as you never use the root crontab unless you want really crap security. Cheers Sent from my iPad > On 11 Apr 2019, at 16:29, Software Info <softwareinfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well thanks for all the input. I just have to tp keep working at it. Again, > much appreciated. > > > Regards > SI > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: Walter Cramer > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 4:40 PM > To: Software Info > Cc: Jonathan Chen; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Crontab Question > >> 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/cp > > Where 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
