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On my Ubuntu 11.04 server when I try to run

 service powernap stop

as a cron job with the root user, it fails and gives me this message in syslog

 NAS CRON[10853]: (CRON) error (grandchild #10854 failed with exit status 2)

and this is emailed to the root users email account

 exec: 129: stop: not found

I can start and stop the powernap service from the command line so why doesn't it work from cron?

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answered 1 Year ago donurp · Accepted Answer

Looks like /sbin is not in $PATH when starting it from cron. Add a line like

PATH = /sbin:$PATH

to the crontab file.