RE: Taper

[Steve Tickle <nospam [at] quarndon.co.uk>]

At 13:03 17/04/2000 +0100, Paul Sims wrote:
>Steve - from the Taper FAQ at http://www.e-survey.net.au/taper/ :
>For some reason, when cron runs a job, it doesn't put /sbin on the path,
>and therefore, taper can't find its children which are in /sbin. The
>solution is to move taper, bg_backup and bg_restore to /bin or put links in
>/bin to point to the entries in /sbin. Newer versions of taper will
>automatically do this with make install.

Got it!!
You're a star Paul, I put links in /bin to point to the files in /sbin as 
you said and it's cracked it!

I'd previously looked at the FAQ but somehow missed this. I didn't compile 
taper from source as I installed it from the SuSE 6.3 CD set. I hadn't 
realized that cron didn't have /sbin in it's search path although I 
should've realized this when I had to change the crontab entry to 
/sbin/taper etc from just taper etc. Weird that cron doesn't have /sbin in 
its' path.

Thanks very much, I can now see the day when a Windoze box is totally 
replaced by a linux box on our network approaching very soon. :)



Steve


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