CROND - Command not found

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Wed Jun 18 06:43:45 PDT 2003


Schalk Erasmus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a Script that is suppose to run every day:
> 
> The script works, when I login as root and run it manually!
> 
> # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD
> #
> # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.21.2.3 2000/12/08
> #
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
> HOME=/var/log
> #
> #minute hour    mday    month   wday    who     command
> #
> 30      7       *       *       *       root    /MIRRORS/mirror.sh
> 
> BUT, it can't find the command: rsync
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: Cron Daemon
> 	Sent: 18 June 2003 07:30 AM
> 	To: root
> 	Subject: Cron <root> /MIRRORS/mirror.sh
> 
> 	Mirroring Exim Site...
> 	rsync: not found
> 
> 	Mirroring Apache Site...
> 	rsync: not found

In the mirror.sh script, use the full path to rsync:
i.e. instead of 'rsync /from/here /to/here'
do '/usr/local/sbin/rsync /from/here /to/here'

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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