Thread: Why can't cron find a daemon to start/stop?

hello

trying start , stop applications <motion> , <motion2> using crond. cron jobs running root. have tried </etc/init.d/motion stop> , <service motion stop> type commands. both commands work command line sudo. neither work in cron.

cron jobs run root permissions shouldn't problem.

don't know why cron can't find jobs. can cause cron unable find commands????

below commands in cron.

code:

# shutdown motion   00 21 * * * /etc/init.d/motion stop   00 21 * * * /etc/init.d/motion2 stop    # start motion   00 05 * * * /etc/init.d/motion start   00 05 * * * /etc/init.d/motion2 start

below email received failed cron job. same error message attempts start/stop daemons.

code:

 * stopping motion2 detection daemon motion2  /etc/init.d/motion2: 78: /etc/init.d/motion2: start-stop-daemon: not found     ...fail!

hi

seems default cron root environment path setting not include location of program want run.

fixed doing a:
echo $path
in bash pasting path first line of root crontab

$path=<pasted in path>

peter pilsl answer.

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