Growisofs and etc/crontab

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Tue Jul 20 15:27:10 PDT 2004


On Tuesday 20 July 2004 04:49 pm, gradeAstudent.com wrote:
> Hello Everone, Anyone burning DVD+RW's from /etc/crontab? I am
> running Freebsd 4.10. I only get "growisofs not found" or something
> like that from cron in the mail messages it sends out. When I type
> out the growisofs -dvd-compat ... command it works great but from
> within cron doesn’t seem to work. Anyone have any ideas.
>
> Andrew Firestone

Try defining the PATH in the crontab file.  Here's the first 2 lines of 
my crontab file:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/var/cron/tabs:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin


Best of luck,

Andrew Gould


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