cron execution and command access

champak · 11-29-2007, 03:14 AM

Hi..
I have problems in executing some of the commands in my shell script when run under user cron. Commands like sendmail(),lsof(),etc
The same script/same entry when executed under root cron(I mean the cron of root) works fine.
Any ideas?
Since the commands are in /usr/sbin probably the user cron not able to access those commands. Is there any place where I should update the path env variable in cron for those commands?

Thanks

bigearsbilly · 11-29-2007, 03:34 AM

cron has a limited environment,
limited PATH, etc.

the easiest way is to just source a .profile in the cron script

champak · 11-29-2007, 05:50 AM

Thanks Billy