| crontab does not find firefox
running java app |
rus3439
msg:3622367 | 4:48 am on Apr 9, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Hi, I have a java app that opens up a firefox browser and then does some checking on the page. When I run the java app from the command line in linux it works fine, but when I do the same with crontab I get the error saying that firefox-bin can't be found. Do I specify the absolute PATH to the firefox in the crontab file? Any solutions are appreciated. thanks,
tatarin
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mcavic
msg:3622368 | 4:52 am on Apr 9, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Yes, just specify the path in the crontab. Cron doesn't automatically run your account's profile, so it'll be missing certain paths like /usr/local/bin.
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rus3439
msg:3622371 | 5:02 am on Apr 9, 2008 (gmt 0) |
same format as in .bashrc? PATH=/opt/firefox2:$PATH
* * * * /blah thanks
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mcavic
msg:3624624 | 3:27 pm on Apr 11, 2008 (gmt 0) |
* * * * /opt/firefox2/blah Or if you need to, you can do
* * * * /home/blah/script.sh And in script.sh you can set the path variable and do whatever else you need to.
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