portmanager

RW list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Wed Oct 12 08:59:16 PDT 2005


On Tuesday 11 October 2005 11:48, Igor Robul wrote:
> Gerard Seibert wrote:
> >***** REPLY SEPARATOR *****
> >On 10/10/2005 5:45:56 AM, Gerard Seibert Replied:
> >
> >Would it be possible to issue a $PATH statement from within the CRON to
> >alleviate this problem? I have not actually tried this method, but I do
> >use it for other programs that I run from CRON and it seems to works
> >just fine.
>
> You can always add shell script wrapper, which sets PATH. This way you
> can avoid adding functions to cron.

I'm probably missing something, because I can't see what the problem is.

crontab(5) says you can define environmental variables in a crontab; and the 
default system crontab already has a PATH variable pre-defined, although it 
doesn't include /usr/local/bin in the path.


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