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 -- Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W