Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:25:11 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Path And 'cron' Message-ID: <43FB30D7.5080509@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <20060221074639.H49013@wonkity.com> References: <43F8E25D.5030503@tundraware.com> <20060219164805.0de1772d.bsd-unix@comcast.net> <43F9EC82.80609@tundraware.com> <20060220194218.27f2f710.bsd-unix@comcast.net> <43FA88EB.9020103@tundraware.com> <20060221074639.H49013@wonkity.com>
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Warren Block wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>
>> In case you're interested (or anyone else listening), it seems that
>> 'chown' likes to live in /usr/sbin - i.e., A place not in the default
>> path. As it happens, a root cron task is trying to run a script
>> that uses 'chown' and is thus failing. I can change the PATH just
>> for root's crontab and solve the problem. I was just curious if there
>> was a way to more broadly modify the defaults used by cron.
>
>
> The standard solution would be to use a full path to the command in the
> script (/usr/sbin/chown). If it's used in multiple locations, defining
> it as a shell variable makes it maintainable:
>
> CHOWN="/usr/sbin/chown"
>
> ${CHOWN} somefile
> ...
> ${CHOWN} anotherfile
>
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
The problem in this case is that it is not a shell script I own
or maintain - it is the shell script provided with 'nessus' to update
its plugins. I could certainly modify the script, but then I'd have
to remember to do this every time I upgraded the program. I prefer
"fire and forget" solutions that take care of themselves automatically.
Hence my desire to be able to change the default path cron uses in
some config file....
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