time/date sync and hwclock

[Collins]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:55:05 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama!
<netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:> 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.
> > > >

As I remember it, cron doesn't have much in the way of pathing
ability.  It is a normal convention to use /abolute/path/name in cron
scripts.

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