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Date:      Tue, 4 Jan 2000 20:49:17 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Joss Roots <osiris2002@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HELP: cron & /etc/periodic question. (it was the PATH environ.)
Message-ID:  <20000104204917.B9437@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000104140527.7441.qmail@web124.yahoomail.com>
References:  <20000104140527.7441.qmail@web124.yahoomail.com>

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Joss Roots wrote:

> I discovered that changing the relative path to an absolute one
> resolves the problem and the scripts is actually executed. cron was
> just ignoring the script, which called another 2 scripts. but when I
> added the full path, it worked.
>
> OK now the user root, should export his PATH environmental variable,
> so I am using tcsh how can I do this.

I don't use tcsh, so I don't know. I think it's something like "setenv
PATH /foo:/bar".

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