Startup from script

User Wojtek wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Tue May 22 17:16:59 UTC 2012


>
> In my crontab I define script 'do_daily.run':
> 30              23      *       *       *       root 
> /root/cronjobs/do_daily.run
>
> The content of this script (amongst others) is:
> rsync -avpog /etc                       /backup/$DATE/
>
> Funny thing now is that in the output of the script, the following appears:
> /root/cronjobs/do_daily.run: rsync: not found
>
> file credentials of the script itself:
> -rwx------  1 root  wheel   246 Jun 20  2010 do_daily.run
>
> What do I oversee here?
>
add

PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin

in the beginning of your crontab

your default $PATH is NOT cron default $PATH



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