On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:55:05 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I dunno then. It can't hurt to set the path in the script, right?> > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Bill Day wrote: > > > Im not following the path issue...? > > > > When the job is ran from a term, no matter what directory Im in, > > its fine, ran using Webmin -> Sheduled Cron Jobs -> (Select the > > job) -> "Run now" it runs fine, but if CRON runs it over night I > > get the hwclock command not found... > > > > The job is set to run as root. > > > > Thanks for the help. > > > > On Tuesday 16 April 2002 08:41, you were heard blurting out: > > > Bill, this is almost definitely a $PATH issue. You might want > > > to add something like: > > > export PATH=$PATH:/bin > > > > > > to your script. > > > > > > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Bill Day wrote: > > > > This is morning message from CRON: > > > > > > > > Subject: Cron <root@linuxbox> rdate -p -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu > > > > && hwclock--systohc > > > > > > > > [clock-1.cs.cmu.edu] Tue Apr 16 04:59:42 2002 > > > > /bin/sh: hwclock: command not found > > > > > > > > I have checked that hwclock does work. I am running the > > > > command (at one point a script) as root to sync the system > > > > time with the closest best ping time timeserver and for the > > > > life of me I cannot get the script to finish successfully and > > > > update the hardware clock as well. > > > > > > > > Below is the script I was using before just the command line, > > > > neither seem to work. Any Ideas? > > > > > > > > The one that mimics the SxS: > > > > > > > > if rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu; then > > > > hwclock --systohc > > > > fi > > > > > > > > The one someone else told me to try: > > > > rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu && hwclock --systohc > > > > > > > > As you can see running it in a term gives me no errors: > > > > [root@linuxbox /root]# hwclock > > > > Tue Apr 16 08:19:23 2002 -0.903347 seconds > > > > [root@linuxbox /root]# hwclock --systohc > > > > [root@linuxbox /root]# > > > > > > > > I canset my time to some ungoddly months days and hours > > > > off and as soon as I run the script my system time is correct > > > > but my hwclock, from cron gives command not found. > > > >
As I remember it, cron doesn't have much in the way of pathing ability. It is a normal convention to use /abolute/path/name in cron scripts. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? Gentoo_rc6-15(1.1a) 2.4.19pre - xfce + sylpheed + mozilla _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
