[CentOS] run bash <filename> from cron
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Wed Nov 15 16:57:54 UTC 2017
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
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Paul Heinlein
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