At 3:21 PM +0300 1/29/08, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
On Jan 29, 2008 2:36 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Frank,
2008/1/29, frank.kintrup@fkware.de <frank.kintrup@fkware.de>:
This is my approach, stored in /etc/cron.hourly. It's very new, so I'm still testing it.
Thank you very much! This was a real help. Just one issue. When I set it as a cron job, it said: sa-learn: not found
Give the full path to sa-learn (or put
which sa-learn)
'which' doesn't work if the executable is not in your PATH environment variable. Most flavors of cron (wisely) provide a very limited value for PATH, in some cases just "/bin:/usr/bin" and on some systems /bin is just a symlink to /usr/bin anyway...
If you are using Vixie Cron or a workalike, you can set PATH in your crontab and never have to worry about forgetting to use a full pathname. That can also help protect against running an unexpected version of something on a system where alternative implementations may lurk behind unexpected PATH's.
-- Bill Cole bill@scconsult.com