apt-get upgrade failing due to PATH problems in Cronjob

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:32:12AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:12:23PM +0800, Enn Pee wrote:
> > the update is happening succesfully but upgrade is
> > failing telling about path problems. Attached is the
> > log info. Where do I set path to work correctly from
> > cron ? If I run the same job in command line, it works
> > fine
> 
> Put that line in root's crontab, not your own (i.e. run 'sudo crontab'),
> and the default path should be OK.

Looking at the code, there's a possibility I'm wrong here. If so, put
this line at the top of the crontab file:

PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]