Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 13:38:57 -0400 From: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> To: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Works From Command Line But Not From Cron? Message-ID: <3AF6DDB1.6A7137F7@thehousleys.net> References: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF9C1@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > I am new to using cron. I have a simple command that I would like have run > every so often to update my dynamic IP address. This is the command: > > lynx -source -auth=username:password > 'http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=www.mydomain.com' >> > /var/log/lynx_dns_update.log > > And the successful output from the log: > > <SUCCESS CODE="200" TEXT="Update succeeded." ZONE="mykitchentable.net" > IP="207.173.248.121"> > > This command runs fine from the command line but does not seem to work (no > update) as a cron job. From my cron log: > > May 7 10:05:00 blacksheep CRON[30684]: (root) CMD > (lynx -source -auth=username:password > 'http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=test.mykitchentable.net' > >> /var/log/lynx_dns_update.log) > > And nothing gets appended into my logfile. Here is my cron entry from > /var/cron/tabs/root: > > * * * * * lynx -source -auth=username:password > 'http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=test.mykitchentable.net' > >> /var/log/lynx_dns_update.log > First guess is that it is not finding lynx, cron doesn't have the same PATH as you normaly do. Try: * * * * * /usr/local/bin/lynx -sou....... Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." -- Andrew Jackson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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