[clug] running fortune from cron.

[Mark Harrison]

Hi,
The environment might not be the same inside cron? Maybe try absolute
paths like '/usr/games/fortune'

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 11:10, John Griffiths wrote:
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> G'day all.
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> I'm almost certainly not doing this the most efficient way, but by way
> of a learning exercise I've written a shell script (my first) to
> generate fortunes, use enscript to convert them into postscript and then
> using convert to turn them into png files, which in turn are displayed
> by a "slideshow" screensaver.
> 
> The script runs fine when i execute it myself,
> 
> but when I put it in the crontab it can't find fortune.
> 
> (Debian woody machine)
> 
> the script is as follows:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> fortune > /home/john/sceen.txt
> enscript -B -f Times-Roman20 /home/john/sceen.txt -p sceen.ps
> convert -negate /home/john/sceen.ps /home/john/sceen/sceen.png
> 
> The crontab is:
> 
> 01 * * * * nohup /home/john/sceen.sh &
> 
> and the error messgae cron is mailling me looks like this:
> 
> /home/john/sceen.sh: fortune: command not found
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Regs,
> 
> John
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