On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Mark Haney wrote:
This might be a bit OT, but I've never had to do this before and what I've googled doesn't seem to be working.
I have an ansible playbook that I'm working on that I want to run as a cronjob. One task I'm having trouble with is where I have a text file with lines like:
rd.pl "blah blah" rd.pl "blah blah blah"
This text file has to be 'executed' using 'bash filename.txt'. (Don't ask why, I'm working on code that isn't mine.) When I run the playbook in a console this bit works perfectly. However, when it's being run from cron, it dies with 'rd.pl: command not found'. My original thought is that cron's $PATH is missing the location to this rd.pl file (it's in /root/bin), so one suggestion from the Google was to add the path into /etc/crontab, but I'm still having the same problem. At this stage, I've no idea what to try next. Any ideas?
In your crontab, try
env PATH="$PATH:/root/bin" bash filename.txt