> > > PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin
> >
> > This in any case find your shutdown program.
> >
> This is incorrect. The system of cron.hourly, etc that runs using
> /etc/crontab is totally separate to the *proper*, per user cron system
> as set up through the crontab command. The above if from the former,
> Roger is using the latter.
Yes he is. Which system does not have shutdown in one of the directories
in that PATH, where it wouldn't be found? And that PATH is in effect
until explicitly modified for per-user cron scripts as well as the
/etc/cron.{daily,weekly etc} ones, which are in turn only called by a
per-user cron script anyway. PATH is inherited.
Volker
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