Sudo command not working with cron job.

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello,

I have written a script that has a sudo command to change file permissions within it.

When I run the script manually, the sudo command inside of it works fine.

When the script is run through crontab I get the error "cron: not found".

It the same user profile that I am using to run the script manually that is running the cron jobs.

Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreiciated.

Thanks.

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are you able to provide details of the script you're running via cron?

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In general 'sudo' in a cron script is a bad idea. Also, in your scripts are you using the full path/command? You should do that. Are you cable to just install the job under root?

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Sounds like the "Cron Error Number 1" to me: read here how to get over that.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

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What details would you nedd?

The jist of it is it uses the sudo command to change the permissions of a file, making it writable, then empties the contents of said file (cat > /dev/null).

So without the sudo command, the file cannot be emptied.

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Yes, the full path is being used.

No, I cannot install it under root.

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So to see if this is the case, I need to copy the "PATH=" variable from the env file into my script?

Sorry if this was answered in the link you supplied, but I am a beginner with unix and am not sure what the resolution was that was provided.

Thanks.