Re: Path And 'cron'

2006-02-21 Thread Warren Block
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

Re: Path And 'cron'

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Daneliuk
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

Re: Path And 'cron'

2006-02-21 Thread James Long
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:25:11 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Path And 'cron' To: Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem in this case is that it is not a shell script I own or maintain

Re: Path And 'cron'

2006-02-20 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Randy Pratt wrote: On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:25:49 -0600 Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the default path for cron jobs established? (And can it be changed...) Take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-cron.html and see if that

Re: Path And 'cron'

2006-02-20 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:21:22 -0600 Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy Pratt wrote: On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:25:49 -0600 Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the default path for cron jobs established? (And can it be changed...) Take a look at:

Re: Path And 'cron'

2006-02-20 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Randy Pratt wrote: SNIP If I do not have a PATH= statement in a particular user's crontab, what is used for a default PATH? From man 5 crontab : Several environment variables are set up automatically by the cron (8) daemon. SHELL is set to /bin/sh, PATH is set to

Re: Path And 'cron'

2006-02-19 Thread David Stanford
Tim, The default location crontabs are stored in is /var/cron/tabs/username/, and yes they can be edited manually. -David On 2/19/06, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the default path for cron jobs established? (And can it be changed...) TIA, --

Re: Path And 'cron'

2006-02-19 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:25:49 -0600 Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the default path for cron jobs established? (And can it be changed...) Take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-cron.html and see if that answers your question.