Hi all:

I try to set up crontab to run my script at certain time. but I had a problem.

basically, my script is located in my home directory of my linux machine.

before I run my actual script, I made an experiment. do:

crontab -e
* * * * * echo `who am i` >> ~/my.txt

when you execute "who am i" in a batch process, you are getting nothing.,

try executing some other, and specify absolute path of it, you are likely to get output.

* * * * * /bin/ls >> ~/my.txt

Thanks for replying!

it did work for absolute path.

I also try echo $PATH, and I got /usr/bin:/bin, which is not my actual environmental variable. what need I do, my actual command need the proper environmental path. just need align the $PATH, then I don't have to attach the proper path every time I try to call some commands.


I am a newbie to linux, sorry to ask such silly quesions.

Thanks million!