[PD] messages from cron to Pd

[Florian Hollerweger]

Hi list,

Thanks Fred, thanks Roman - both of your suggestions worked.

As Roman suggested, the problem was that cron does not know much about
its environment, so while it seems to know /bin (where nc resides on my
system, which is why Fred's suggestion worked), it does not know
/usr/local/bin (where pdsend resides on my system).

Thanks a lot for your contributions!

best,
flo.H


Fred Voisin wrote:
> you may test (it should work):
> echo "foo bla bla" | nc -u host Pdportfornetreceive


Roman Haefeli wrote:
> Probably cron doesn't find the binaries. Either export all PATHes or
> specify absolute pathes for all files/binaries:
> * * * * * /bin/echo "foo bla;" | /usr/local/bin/pdsend 3007 localhost
> (I know that at least /usr/local/bin/ is not searched by default by
> cron).