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by **Joe Dupr** » Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:58:14

I've been manualy running ntpdate to sync my clock to a ntp server. I
finally got the bright idea to have cron do this, but for some reason cron
sends me an email instead saying "/bin/sh: ntpdate: command not found".

Now when I am logged in as root, the command runs fine. ntpdate is located
in /usr/sbin. Do I need to link this to some other directory so cron can
find it?

System is RH linux 7.0

Thanks,

- Joe

by **Dave Uhrin** » Wed, 24 Jul 2002 06:30:59

> Do I need to link this to some other directory so cron
> can find it?

No, you need to specify the full path to ntpdate in the crontab.

0,20,40 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate 192.168.0.6 > /dev/null 2>&1

by **Floyd Davidso** » Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:33:44

>I've been manualy running ntpdate to sync my clock to a ntp server. I
>finally got the bright idea to have cron do this, but for some reason cron
>sends me an email instead saying "/bin/sh: ntpdate: command not found".

>Now when I am logged in as root, the command runs fine. ntpdate is located
>in /usr/sbin. Do I need to link this to some other directory so cron can
>find it?

Provide a full pathname to the command in your crontab.

--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>

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cron: command not found ???

cron: command not found ???

cron: command not found ???

cron: command not found ???