Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:19:13 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, David Goodnature <goodnaturenet@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Cannot get Script to Run Via Crontab Message-ID: <18278.26945.843337.942745@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20071217075424.GB2398@kobe.laptop> References: <BLU127-W2769D67D198ACB69ECC1B5AA610@phx.gbl> <20071217075424.GB2398@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > The lines from my script that are causing the problem are: > > > > my $scomd = "/usr/local/bin/ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dDownsampleMonoImages=true -dMonoImageDownsampleType=/Average -dMonoImageDownsampleThreshold=1.5 -dMonoImageResolution=600 ".$inpath.$cur_ps_files[0]." ".$outpath.$pdffilename; > > > > 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. > > Yes. That's what is happenning. The default PATH of cron jobs doesn't > include `/usr/local/bin', but you have lots of options: > > 1) Add it to the crontab file > > 2) Modify the default path in your Perl script: Allow me to recommend the second, as it will not disturb other cron programs that may be expecting the default path. Robert Huff
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