From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-05-07T06:21:35+09:00
Subject: Re: system call not working under cron

Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> ret = system("gconftool -t str --set
> /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename '#{new_picture}'")
...

OT, but should that be

   -t #{str}

?

> Does anyone know why this command would work from a console, but not
> from a cron job?

Have you set up the PATH env var so that the command is found? Cron jobs 
run in a very basic environment, so it may not be finding the program 
(though apparently it did find ruby).

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