[CentOS] cron jobs not running

[Cliff Pratt]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 3:31 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:19:01PM +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote:
>>
>> Tim, the program is run by cron in a different environment to the
>> standard online environment. Is /bin/alldb a script? If so, *any*
>> program in the script should have a full path, or the PATH enviroment
>> variable should be specified in the cron. (see 'man cron').
>
> Only execs outside of /bin:/usr/bin need to be fully pathed; cron
> exports a default PATH of /bin:/usr/bin.
>
> Please see "man crontab" for the explanation as to what is going wrong
> here; look for '%' in the man page.
>
Ah! I never knew that! It's a good trap.

Cheers,

Cliff