Cronjobs don't get run

[Andrew Glen-Young]

On 08/10/2007, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow <spam at buebo.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a cronjob like this:
>
> */15    *       *       *       *       getmail --quiet --rcfile=whatever
>
> It  works fine when run directly from the command line but does not run at
> all as a cronjob.

The cron job will be run with a restricted environment. Be careful and
check than the script is in the PATH that the cron job expects.

>From crontab(5):

"... PATH is  set to "/usr/bin:/bin".  HOME, SHELL, and PATH may be
overridden by settings in the crontab..."

That would be my first guess.

Regards.
Andrew Glen-Young