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Ash
Ash

Reputation: 783

Unable to run a service command via cron

service service_name start

When i tried running this from cmd line, it works. But when i try to schedule it via cron, i get an error saying

/bin/sh: service: command not found

Upvotes: 76

Views: 31359

Answers (1)

Dark Falcon
Dark Falcon

Reputation: 44201

sbin is not in the path when run via cron. Specify the full path to service. This is probably either /sbin/service or /usr/sbin/service. You can find the path on your system by running which service.

Upvotes: 165

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