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
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
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
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
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:
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
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,
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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.