Cron vs. Command Line Problems

[David Cary Hart]

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 11:21, David Kramer wrote:
> > What am I missing?
> 
> What you are missing is that both logrotate and cron are not you.  More 
> specifically, they do not have your environment variables, including $PATH. 
> You must either set the PATH at the top of the crontab file, or use hard-coded 
> paths for every file you specify.  I recommend the latter.
> 
> Trick #2: remember to redirect stdout and stderror of new crontab entries you 
> are testing out, so you can see error messages.
> 
Well put. Thanks.