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Registered: 2008-10-11

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The magic of hibernation

I can use the command hibernate in the shell since I updated to debian/sid, and since then I can also hibernate when logging out in xfce, so I'm assuming these facts are correlated and I'm asking here, if someone points me to the place I should be asking I would be thankful.

The point is that I can use the command hibernate as the superuser, but cron cannot use that command. It doesn't matter if I set the command directly in crontab or if I use a script with the command in it, I get the error "command not found". This doesn't happen to me as the superuser in the shell, where the command works perfectly. I have took a look in the .bash_aliases file, but it is not there, so I can't find the source of the discrepancy.

Thank you very much.

herd

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Re: The magic of hibernation

For reasons of security, cron does not use any default environment variables, so $PATH is not set.

So if the command on your console would be 'hibernate', you would need to put its full path into the crontab:

/usr/bin/hibernate

hth,

herd