apt-get upgrade failing due to PATH problems in Cronjob

[Enn Pee]

Hi,

I had put the cron entry in root using "sudo crontab
-e" command and not in user crontab. That is when I am
getting this error. No cron jobs have been defined in
the default user id.

By the way, will the upgrade command "apt-get upgrade"
in the cronjob overwrites any existing apache or samba
configuration files or spares those important config
files ? 

And is it recommended to reboot the machine whenever
kernel related patches are applied ?

Ennpee


> 
 --- Colin Watson <cjwatson at canonical.com> wrote:   
> 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,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                   
> [cjwatson at canonical.com]
> 
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