Re: cron path problem

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:13:09PM +, Alexis Huxley wrote: >> Best way to fix path is to put it explicitly in the command you run as >> in: >> >> 0 0 * * 1-5 sh -c 'PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin; apt-get update; apt-get >> install ...' > > Tha

Re: cron path problem

2004-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought that cron would run as user cron, but there's no such user. Who > does it run as? Or how can I set the path that cron has access to? If you're talking /etc/crontab, then it is run as root unless you tell it to do otherwise. If it's your ~/

Re: cron path problem

2004-03-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:13:09PM +, Alexis Huxley wrote: > Best way to fix path is to put it explicitly in the command you run as > in: > > 0 0 * * 1-5 sh -c 'PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin; apt-get update; apt-get > install ...' That's pretty cumbersome. Much easier just to set the

Re: cron path problem

2004-03-24 Thread Alexis Huxley
> Hi guys, > > I have setup a cron job (on woody) to run apt-get update and apt-get install > once a week to do security updates. > > I get the following: > > dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. > dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH. > dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH. > dpkg: `updat

Re: cron path problem

2004-03-24 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 13:10, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Normally jobs are run under the user id in the crontab file, or, if the > job is run from a user crontab, under that user's id. It's system wide with no user-id in the crontab file (will check that out). > By setting the PATH in your cronj

Re: cron path problem

2004-03-24 Thread loco
when you use a shell script this run on the specific shell whith the user ambient path because is to diferent run a script on cron or tty i put the complet path on all comand than i use!, ## /sbin/prog1 -d /home/pedro /bin/prog2 -frp > /home/pedro/filename.txt ## sorry for my eanglish And

Re: cron path problem

2004-03-24 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Hans du Plooy (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have setup a cron job (on woody) to run apt-get update and apt-get > install once a week to do security updates. > > I get the following: > > dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. > dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH. > dpkg: `install-

Re: cron path problem

2004-03-24 Thread Randy Orrison
Hans du Plooy wrote: I have setup a cron job (on woody) to run apt-get update and apt-get install once a week to do security updates. Just do apt-get install cron-apt (The version in testing should work fine on woody as well, and has a few more features, but the one in woody does what you

cron path problem

2004-03-24 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I have setup a cron job (on woody) to run apt-get update and apt-get install once a week to do security updates. I get the following: dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH. dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH. dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found o