From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 07:53:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986FE16A4B3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 07:53:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6667943FAF for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 07:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.106]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:56:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3F85764A.9090507@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 09:52:58 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Rothgaber References: <3F855B43.5010405@palmetto.tv> <441xtmedvm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <3F856A15.10206@palmetto.tv> In-Reply-To: <3F856A15.10206@palmetto.tv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Oct 2003 14:56:01.0906 (UTC) FILETIME=[74D6D520:01C38E75] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FAQ pointer] Re: Cron X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 14:53:36 -0000 Scott Rothgaber wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> A simple copy won't work; the files have different formats. > > > Understood. The format of the tab is fine. When the command runs, > however, there is a path problem because the job will generate errors > like "chkgrp: not found." Cron has a very limited environment, as you've discovered. Give it the full path to the executable (/usr/bin/checkgrp), it'll be happier. HTH,