Hello
Hans du Plooy (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I have setup a cron job (on woody) to run apt-get update and apt-get
> install once a week to do security updates.
>
> I get the following:
>
> dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
>
> I thought that cron would run as user cron, but there's no such user.
> Who does it run as?
Normally jobs are run under the user id in the crontab file, or, if the
job is run from a user crontab, under that user's id.
> Or how can I set the path that cron has access to?
By setting the PATH in your cronjob script.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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