Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 11:36:56 -0700 From: snowick@learn2.com To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: cron woes - please help! Message-ID: <B53DA8D7.144B%snowick@learn2.com>
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Hi everyone- I've read everything I can on setting cron jobs and tried a few myself but I'm getting a lot of errors and really need a few of these crons to work. I don't see anything in the Handbook about cron paths & variables which seem to be part of the problem. Running FreeBSD3.4, I have an id whose cron job has it run an rsync of files on another server. When I run the command as a command line, it works beautifully (I have the ssh-password thing worked out, that's not the problem). The error I keep getting seems to be regarding the id's paths - I get rsync: command not found errors (it's in /usr/local/bin) but when I look at the crontab error email there are a bunch of X-Cron-Env settings that don't match the ids ENV setting (see below - especially PATH=) Does anyone know how I modify the X-Cron-Env? Or even what/why it is? I changed the command to /usr/local/bin/rsync but then I get the same error for ssh (also in /usr/local/bin). How do I add /usr/local/bin to cron's paths? + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 11:15:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005091815.LAA18763@www2.serverB.com> From: root (Cron Daemon) To: learn2 Subject: Cron <myid@www2> rsync -av -e ssh --exclude 'cgi-bin' serverA.com:/hom e/learn2/htdocs /usr/local/share/apache >> ~/sync.log 2>&1 X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/learn2> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=learn2> X-Cron-Env: <USER=learn2> rsync: not found Any ideas? Thanks- rrrrrobot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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