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Re: auto restarting in crontab

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On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 12:24:10PM +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote:
> The environments of login shells and crontab can be different. This
> includes the path where to seek executables. Therefore it is good
> practice not to write just the name of the executable as nc but the
> name with the path as /usr/bin/nc. Here I took nc as an example.

It's better to set the PATH variable to whatever you need it to be.
Then you don't have to hard-code the execution path of every single
command in the script.  (Which means your script breaks when you move
it to a system where nc is in /bin instead of /usr/bin, and so on.)

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auto restarting in crontab coreyh@free.fr - 2023-03-16 02:00 +0100
  Re: auto restarting in crontab Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2023-03-16 02:10 +0100
    Re: auto restarting in crontab Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-16 02:40 +0100
      Re: auto restarting in crontab coreyh@free.fr - 2023-03-16 02:50 +0100
        Re: auto restarting in crontab Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-16 04:20 +0100
          Re: auto restarting in crontab coreyh@free.fr - 2023-03-16 07:30 +0100
        Re: auto restarting in crontab "pyh@ymail.ne.jp" <pyh@ymail.ne.jp> - 2023-03-16 05:00 +0100
          Re: auto restarting in crontab "pyh@ymail.ne.jp" <pyh@ymail.ne.jp> - 2023-03-16 05:10 +0100
            Re: auto restarting in crontab Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2023-03-16 06:00 +0100
  Re: auto restarting in crontab Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-03-16 09:00 +0100
    Re: auto restarting in crontab Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-16 12:10 +0100
      Re: auto restarting in crontab Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-03-16 12:10 +0100
  Re: auto restarting in crontab Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-16 12:30 +0100
    Re: auto restarting in crontab Christoph Brinkhaus <c.brinkhaus@t-online.de> - 2023-03-16 14:00 +0100
      Re: auto restarting in crontab Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-16 14:10 +0100
        Re: auto restarting in crontab Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-03-16 14:20 +0100
          Re: Re: auto restarting in crontab pyh@ymail.ne.jp - 2023-03-16 17:30 +0100
            Re: auto restarting in crontab Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-03-16 18:40 +0100
              Re: auto restarting in crontab Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2023-03-16 19:00 +0100
              Re: auto restarting in crontab debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-03-16 23:20 +0100
                Re: auto restarting in crontab Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-03-17 00:10 +0100
                Re: auto restarting in crontab Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-03-17 00:40 +0100
                Re: auto restarting in crontab Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-03-17 13:20 +0100
                Re: auto restarting in crontab debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-03-17 13:20 +0100
                Re: auto restarting in crontab "pyh@ymail.ne.jp" <pyh@ymail.ne.jp> - 2023-03-17 01:10 +0100
                Re: auto restarting in crontab Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-17 01:20 +0100
                Re: auto restarting in crontab debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-03-17 13:30 +0100
  Re: auto restarting in crontab Christoph Brinkhaus <c.brinkhaus@t-online.de> - 2023-03-16 12:30 +0100

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