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Need some tips for a bash script.

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – does it fail if you fully qualify the ip command?  (i.e. /sbin/ip)You can always execute it from cron with a -x and send the output to a file and see exactly what is happening.  To do this, change cron to /bin/bash -x /path/to/script > /tmp/outfile 2>&1 oliver https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=13735 2013-01-12T01:22:19Z (HowTos)

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I applied my script to the wiki today, replacing the old one: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OS … ibernationThanks again for your help!

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Im trying to run script A which requires path /sbin. I have a crontab entry to run script A every 10 minutes. Script A is executed fine by cron, but because script A requires /sbin in its path it fails to run. My situation is script A get overwritten from time to time so I can't modify script A to set path in there.

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@mcarni, you know that when you use "sh <script>" you are specifying sh as the shell the script will be run with.  In otherwords, you are overriding the shebang (#!/bin/bash) with /bin/sh.  On our systems, we actually don't have an actual /bin/sh, as it is a symlink to bash.  But when it is called via that symlink, it actually does its best to act like the old b