At Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:20:12 -0500 (EST) CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Please forgive my ignorance but I need a explanation of how to > accomplish the following since I cannot figure it out from the > documents. > > I have a Ruby script with a shebang line that looks like this: > > #!/usr/bin/env ruby > > On one particular host I have two Ruby interpreters installed; one > the CentOS base version 1.8.6 in /usr/bin/ruby the other version > 1.8.7 in /usr/local/bin/ruby. In my shell the which command finds > /usr/local/bin/ruby. In a cron job the /usr/bin/ruby is used by the > /bin/env invocation. > > My question is: How does one configure /bin/env to return the > /usr/local/bin/ruby version? or does that question even make sense? PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH Compare the value of PATH in your shell vs. the cronjob. > > I have looked at the alternatives command but that seems just a tad > involved. And since this is a production server I am not quite > ready to trust to RVM either. > > In the short term I have simply removed the CentOS version which has > resolved the immediate issue. However, I would like to know how to > handle this a little more elegantly in future. > > > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos