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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 17:29:30 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Chado <chado@p3.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Ping program not working from cron
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On Thu,  9 April 1998 at  0:15:36 -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Chado wrote:
>
>> Gents,
>>
>> I have written a program that pings hosts on our network and the internet.
>>
>> When I run it from the command line it works fine...but when I install it
>> in the cron it doesnt find any of the local machines.
>
> Are you sure you can run ping at all from cron?  It may be erroring with a
> `permission denied' or something like that ...

In cron, the most likely problem is "file not found".  Try specifying
all program names with a full pathname (/sbin/ping, not ping).

Greg

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