Re: Cron says "bad command"

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On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 10:01 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> In /etc/crontab, I have this line:
> 30  *  *  *  *  /home/root/fix_mail
> 
> root@mtranch[221]->ls -l /home/root/fix_mail
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1324 2010-02-18 07:04 /home/root/fix_mail*
> 
> Crond sees this and says (from /var/log/cron)
> Feb 18 07:06:01 mtranch crond[1362]: (CRON) bad command (/etc/crontab)
> 
> /home/root/fix_mail is a perl script,
> root@mtranch[222]->head -1 /home/root/fix_mail
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> And executes correctly when run from the command line.
> 
> Any thoughts on what the source of the complaint might be?
----
generally people make the mistake of assuming an environment where a
cron script would not have so for example, running...

ls assumes the environment of /bin so if you want to bury it in a script
run from cron, you would replace 'ls' with '/bin/ls' if you want it to
run... etc. Always provide absolute paths to scripts that may possibly
be run without an environment. Don't take for granted that whatever you
get for 'echo $PATH' will also be the same for a script.

Craig 


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