Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Why isn't my cron job working?

2009-02-24 Thread radish
SuperQ;400081 Wrote: > Why don't use use apt-get to update instead of trying to find the right > package name? Because I'm an idiot? My only defence is that when I set this up unstable wasn't pointing at 7.4, but now it is so it makes a lot more sense to use that :) Thanks all for the edumacati

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Why isn't my cron job working?

2009-02-23 Thread SuperQ
Why don't use use apt-get to update instead of trying to find the right package name? -- SuperQ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthr

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Why isn't my cron job working?

2009-02-23 Thread radish
Ahh...so just running as root isn't a simulation of running under cron. Gotcha - I bet it can't find dpkg. Thanks! -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://f

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Why isn't my cron job working?

2009-02-23 Thread MrC
Be sure to either manually set your PATH, or use full path names for commands. Cron's PATH is very minimal for security reasons. -- MrC MrC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=468 View this thread:

[SlimDevices: Unix] Why isn't my cron job working?

2009-02-23 Thread radish
Slightly off topic, but I hope I can be forgiven :) I have test server (actually a VM) running ubuntu 8.10 and the 7.4 nightly. I set up a cron job to download the nightly every day and install it - so far so good. The problem is, although the cron job runs (the file gets downloaded) and there ar