macos script

[hobbes]

So you want me to add "/sbin" to my PATH variable from within the script?

PATH=/sbin/:$PATH

for example?


On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 17:10, Simon Hobson <dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
> hobbes wrote:
>>
>> Well, my PATH variable in bash in correct.
>
> When/how did you check that - by typing "echo $PATH" in a shell ? It's a
> common problem that scripts run fine when you run them by hand (using an
> interactive shell with one environment), but then doesn't work when run from
> cron (or I guess in this case dhclient) with a totally different
> environment. PATH is the a common issue here - cron (for example) uses a
> much smaller PATH setting than interactive shells.
>
> It's one of those things that everyone does, and then they remember how much
> it hurt and try to avoid being bitten by it again :-/
>
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