[kde-linux] kcron

[Paul Kaplan]

Is this a regression or a kubuntu issue?  I'm pretty sure this wasn't the case 
with earlier versions of kde or kubuntu.
Paul
On Saturday 17 November 2007 7:27:45 am Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 17 November 2007 12:21:12 Rod Butcher wrote:
> > Paul Kaplan wrote:
> > > Since installing kde 3.5.8 with kubuntu gutsy, I can't get kcron to
> > > execute any scheduled tasks.  Some are run as root and some as a normal
> > > user, but none execute.
> > >
> > > Any ideas what's going on or how to fix?
> >
> > One problem I had was that the normal terminal environment (i.e. with
> > default ../bin) didn't seem to be set up.. so that if I set it to run
> > xyz it wouldn't run, even though /usr/bin was in my default environment,
> > and /usr/bin/xyz existed. My fix was to set it to execute /usr/bin/xyz.
> > Dunno if this is connected..
>
> I was told that cron doesn't run with your (or root's) environment, so one
> should always set the full path in a cron job.  HTH
>
> Anne