Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:51:00 +0100 From: Rolf G Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> To: David Goodnature <goodnaturenet@hotmail.com> Cc: Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot get Script to Run Via Crontab Message-ID: <476581A4.3020605@lazlarlyricon.com> In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0712161140h5d614accje0fefd370029b73b@mail.gmail.com> References: <BLU127-W2769D67D198ACB69ECC1B5AA610@phx.gbl> <14989d6e0712161140h5d614accje0fefd370029b73b@mail.gmail.com>
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Christian Walther wrote: > Hi, > > On 16/12/2007, David Goodnature <goodnaturenet@hotmail.com> wrote: > [...] >> The cron message to mail/root ends with: >> >> exec: ps2pdf12: not found >> >> >> I am assuming that cron cannot find a path or a config file for ghostscript, but I don't have any idea how to fix this problem. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> > When calling scripts from cron you only have a very minimal PATH, > something that is /bin:/usr/bin. You have two options: Create a Path > in Script yourself, and make sure that this is really passed over to > the Environment your commands are executed in. > Another option is to exec commands with their full qualified pathname. > In this case you don't have to care wether or not the path is set up > properly. > > HTH > Christian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > It's also possible to define a PATH variable (and other environment variables too, for that matter) in the crontable. Put them at the top of the file, above the actual table. -- Sincerly, Rolf Nielsen
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