[Dirvish] curious problem - dirvish does nothing when run from cron

[Eric 'Scanner' Luce]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Slootman <paul at debian.org>
>>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:29:24 +0100

    Paul> I note that you're calling dirvish-expire and dirvish-runall
    Paul> with full pathnames... Is that because otherwise those
    Paul> commands couldn't be found?  If so, then most probably
    Paul> dirvish-runall can't find the "dirvish" command either :-)

Hm. That was stupid of me. (although I would have thought that 1)
dirvish was built with its own absolute path names, and 2) it would
error out if it could not find its own programs.)

I tend to always specify programs run as root with their full pathname
whether or not they could be found in the PATH by default. I feel it
is a good safety practice. Had not even occured to me (obviously) that
dirvish-runall would not know where the rest of dirvish is.

    Paul> Either fix the PATH that cron uses when executing its jobs,
    Paul> or put dirvish somewhere where it can be found.

    Paul> I prefer to keep the crontab entry nice and simple and just
    Paul> call a shell script there, which also makes it easier to
    Paul> make sure that things such as PATH are set up correctly.

True. Thanks! Let me see if this fixes it.
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