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Asked: 2026-05-31T22:04:23+00:00

my crontab is as follows: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ 01 04 * * *

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my crontab is as follows:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
01 04 * * * root /home/sphinx_scripts/daily_update_index.sh

daily_update_index.sh is as follows:

indexer  --rotate xxx

now if I run /home/sphinx_scripts/daily_update_index.sh from anywhere(as root), it works fine. But I get emails daily from cron job saying “command indexer is not found”. the full path of the indexer is /usr/loca/bin/indexer. Why would I get such an error?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The issue is that indexer is not on the path. You say it is /usr/local/bin/indexer and you have PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
    To fix this I would put the whole path to indexer in daily_update_index.sh or add /usr/local/bin to the path in daily_update_index.sh

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