/tmp running out of space

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Jan 10 19:02:54 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 10 January 2007 16:38, fredex wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:03:47PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 January 2007 11:48, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > I have a problem, Steve.  Running that command from a root konsole
> > > > works fine, so I set it to run as a cron job every Wednesday.  Now I
> > > > find that from both boxes where I set this up I'm getting root emails
> > > > that say
> > > >
> > > > /bin/sh: tmpwatch: command not found
> > > >
> > > > What could be wonrg?
> > >
> > > Use the full pathname.  /usr/sbin/tmpwatch
> >
> > Thanks, Ed.  That seems to have cured it - at least 'Run now' worked
> > fine.  I just assumed that it would be on root's path, so didn't need the
> > full pathname.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Anne:
>
> You may find it helpful to look at the man page for crontab(5) (man 5
> crontab), as it tells how to set up a proper environment for cron jobs. The
> implication is that you don't have a full envrionment set up when cron runs
> a job.

Thanks, Fred.  Someone sent me an off-list message to that effect.  Another 
new concept for me :-)

Anne
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