> On Nov 15, 2017, at 11:48 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > 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? >> >> For the record, this was the only option to handle the task I'm having >> issues with inside cron. >> > Yes. Do not trust your environment, running as a cron job, to be what you > think it is. Try testing it by have your cron job, at the top of the > script, issue the env command. What about just giving the full path to the rd.pl script in the text file (i.e. /root/bin/rd.pl) ? Noam ____________ || |U.S. NAVAL| |_RESEARCH_| LABORATORY Noam Bernstein, Ph.D. Center for Materials Physics and Technology U.S. Naval Research Laboratory T +1 202 404 8628 F +1 202 404 7546 https://www.nrl.navy.mil <https://www.nrl.navy.mil/>