Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:44:33 -0400 From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to simulate a user's crontab? Message-ID: <6155B532-19E5-473C-9736-6C7BFBD3E1FE@identry.com> In-Reply-To: <487F1097.31417.718F23E@iwrtech.iwr.ru.ac.za> References: <487F1097.31417.718F23E@iwrtech.iwr.ru.ac.za>
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> > John, it is not a permissions issue, but rather a path issue. > Do as the other poster suggested and run a cron job to dump the > environment and you will see that the PATH inside a cron job is very > rudimentary. Either add what you need to it in the crontab or cron > job, or always use absolute paths for everything in a cron entry. > > alternatively, set up an AT job as the user, then find the script > generated by at and grab a copy (/var/spool/cron ???). You can use > that copy as the basis for all cron scripts for that user, and always > have the 'user' environment set up correctly. > Yes, I finally figured this out. I had the problem completely backwards... I assumed that when I ran 'su user', I was logged in as the user. Since the command worked when I was 'logged in' and didn't work for crontab, I figured crontab must be different. It never occured to me that *I* was running in a different environment :-) If I had realized, a quick read of the su man page would have solved my problem. As it was, I had been shown su long ago by another admin, and just assumed I knew how it worked. Wrong! Well, that's the joys of being of newbie administrator... So little time, so many man pages to read! Thanks: John
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