time/date sync and hwclock

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I dunno then.  It can't hurt to set the path in the script, right?

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Bill Day wrote:

> Im not following the path issue...?
>
> When the job is ran from a term, no matter what directory Im in, its fine,
> ran using Webmin -> Sheduled Cron Jobs -> (Select the job) -> "Run now" it
> runs fine, but if CRON runs it over night I get the hwclock command not
> found...
>
> The job is set to run as root.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> On Tuesday 16 April 2002 08:41, you were heard blurting out:
> > Bill, this is almost definitely a $PATH issue.  You might want to add
> > something like:
> > export PATH=$PATH:/bin
> >
> > to your script.
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Bill Day wrote:
> > > This is morning message from CRON:
> > >
> > > Subject: Cron <root at linuxbox> rdate -p -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu && hwclock
> > > --systohc
> > >
> > > [clock-1.cs.cmu.edu]    Tue Apr 16 04:59:42 2002
> > > /bin/sh: hwclock: command not found
> > >
> > > I have checked that hwclock does work.  I am running the command (at one
> > > point a script) as root to sync the system time with the closest best
> > > ping time timeserver and for the life of me I cannot get the script to
> > > finish successfully and update the hardware clock as well.
> > >
> > > Below is the script I was using before just the command line, neither
> > > seem to work.  Any Ideas?
> > >
> > > The one that mimics the SxS:
> > >
> > > if rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu; then
> > >    hwclock --systohc
> > > fi
> > >
> > > The one someone else told me to try:
> > > rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu && hwclock --systohc
> > >
> > > As you can see running it in a term gives me no errors:
> > > [root at linuxbox /root]# hwclock
> > > Tue Apr 16 08:19:23 2002  -0.903347 seconds
> > > [root at linuxbox /root]# hwclock --systohc
> > > [root at linuxbox /root]#
> > >
> > > I canset my time to some ungoddly months days and hours
> > > off and as soon as I run the script my system time is correct but my
> > > hwclock, from cron gives command not found.
> > >
> > > TIA,
>
>

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