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Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 21:43:46 +0200
From: Anton Berezin <none@tobez--tobez.org.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
To: bsd-dk@BSD-Dk.dk
Subject: Re: cron PATH

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:28:26PM +0200, Munish Chopra wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Jeg har prøvet at sætte min FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE til at lave en cvsup hver dag
> kl. 10:15. Cron-tingen virker fint nok, men den kan desværre ikke lave
> cvsup'en da dens PATH kun er /bin og /usr/bin. cvsup ligger i
> /usr/local/bin. Nu kunne jeg jo godt bare fyre et symlink ind i /usr/bin,
> men jeg kunne godt tænke mig at vide hvordan man ændrer på Cron's PATH...
>
> Men også bare ud af interesse...er det i sidste ende bedre at lave den
> symlink eller udvide PATH? Altså sikkerhedsmæssigt eller hvad ved jeg.

Just put the line of a form

   PATH=your:path:as:usual

somewhere in the beginning of your crontab. See man 5 crontab for more
details; it's described in the first screenful of the manual.

On the other hand, why would you want to do such a thing? What's wrong
with specifying the full path to cvsup?

   /usr/local/bin/cvsup [options]

And of course there is absolutely no need for symlinks...

Cheers,
+Anton.

-- 
May the tuna salad be with you.

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