On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:44, magicus wrote: > > $ locate tmpwatch > /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch > /usr/sbin/tmpwatch > /usr/share/man/man8/tmpwatch.8.gz > > What happens if you give it the full path? > > ( /usr/sbin/tmpwatch instead of just tmpwatch ) > Hi, furlan. Yes, that's what was needed. I had not understood that root didn't have access to its path when running the command in a cron job. 'Run now' worked, so hopefully, next time it runs as scheduled on Wednesday it should run without problems. I do like the cron emails. Such a comfort :-) Anne
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