On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Mark Haney wrote:

This might be a bit OT, but I've never had to do this before and what I've googled doesn't seem to be working.

I have an ansible playbook that I'm working on that I want to run as a cronjob.  One task I'm having trouble with is where I have a text file with lines like:

rd.pl "blah blah"
rd.pl "blah blah blah"

This text file has to be 'executed' using 'bash filename.txt'. (Don't ask why, I'm working on code that isn't mine.) When I run the playbook in a console this bit works perfectly.  However, when it's being run from cron, it dies with 'rd.pl: command not found'.  My original thought is that cron's $PATH is missing the location to this rd.pl file (it's in /root/bin), so one suggestion from the Google was to add the path into /etc/crontab, but I'm still having the same problem.  At this stage, I've no idea what to try next.  Any ideas?

In your crontab, try

  env PATH="$PATH:/root/bin" bash filename.txt

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