I could not run this script in /etc/crontab

[Jonathan Chen]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Halid Faith wrote:
> My pathname is correct. I already checked it.
> Also I can run manually while I am a root user.

root' PATH is nothing like cron's PATH. Did you set the path
explicity in your script?
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Derek Ragona" <derek at computinginnovations.com>
> To: "Halid Faith" <maslak at ihlas.net.tr>; <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:31 PM
> Subject: Re: I could not run this script in /etc/crontab
> 
> 
> > Check your script for and use full pathnames for commands, cron doesn't
> > guarantee you will have a path or any environment variables you don't set
> > in your script.
> >
> >          -Derek
> >
> >
> > At 02:15 PM 2/28/2006, Halid Faith wrote:
> > >Hello
> > >
> > >I have a script.
> > >I can run it without a problem as root manually.
> > >But I have a problem
> > >I could not run this script in /etc/crontab as below;
> > >
> > >*/1     *       *       *       *       root    /root/thescript
> > >
> > >What should I do ?