Hi, I presume root is running the cronjob ? Try and put the following on top of the script: #!/bin/bash --login On 5/3/06 11:22 AM, "Cameron Beattie" <kjcsb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am experiencing a strange problem where crontab won't run a script when I > specify the full path to it. > > whereis logrotate > logrotate: /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf /etc/logrotate.d > /usr/share/man/man8/logrotate.8.gz > > crontab -l > 02 21 * * * logrotate /usr/share/mysql/mysql-log-rotate > > In this case the crontab doesn't run because of a path issue. > X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> > X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> > X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> > X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> > X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> > > /bin/sh: logrotate: command not found > > crontab -l > 02 21 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate /usr/share/mysql/mysql-log-rotate > > In this case the script is not run at all. No errors are reported in the > logfile. > > I'm sure there's an easy fix for this other than a symlink to > /usr/sbin/logrotate? > > Any advice appreciated. > > Regards > > Cameron Met vriendelijke groeten / Kind regards, Eric -- Eric Donkersloot Amsterdam, The Netherlands eric.donkersloot@xxxxxxxxx
