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RE: Cron and find


On 17 November 2006 15:12, Eric Blake wrote:

> According to cygwill on 11/17/2006 8:02 AM:
>> ok - I've worked this out. The find command works if I explicitly use
>> /usr/bin/find 
>> 
>> no idea why this is an issue when cron runs as the same user I'm logged in
>> as? 
>> 
> 
> cron runs with a different environment than your default login
> environment.  Are you sure what PATH is being set to from cron's
> perspective? 

  Yes, Will: take a look at the bash man page, the section on startup files,
and look at the documentation for the '-i' flag.  bash invoked from crond is
presumably (WARNING: unverified supposition - handle with caution)
non-interactive and therefore doesn't run all the same startup scripts.  (It
may or may not count as a login shell also, I don't know).


    cheers,
      DaveK
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