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Asked: 2010-07-11 13:36:46 +0800 CST

can start-stop-daemon only run as su

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Ubuntu Lucid.

I am writing a start/stop script for a program. The program shall be started/stopped by the crontab.

Running it as program-user, error message: start-stop-daemon command not found. However, if I try it with sudo start-stop-daemon, it works.

Is there a way to get it to work running on program-user crontab?

ubuntu cron startup

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  1. Best Answer

    start-stop-daemon is in /sbin which is often not included in a user's PATH. It's also probably not in the default PATH for cron. You can add it for a particular user in their ~/.bashrc or for all users in /etc/bash.bashrc. If you're starting it in a crontab or in a script run from a crontab, just add the full path like this: /sbin/start-stop-daemon ....

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