Hi,

I'm using get_iplayer on my RPi. I've a bunch of pvr searches set up and it works absolutely fine:




However ...

If I run the same command as a cron job, it fails as it seems not to be able to find rtmpdump:

Cron: 10 * * * * /home/get_iplayer/get_iplayer --pvr --profile-dir /root/.get_iplayer >> /tmp/get_iplayer.log




Any help would be much appreciated!

You don't say where you installed rtmpdump, but wherever it is, it isn't in PATH as defined in the cron environment. cron only gives you a minimal environment by default, and it doesn't access your .profile or similar configuration files. However, you can google up many ways to alter the cron environment. The alternative is to use the , , etc. options for get_iplayer to explicitly define where all the external utilities reside, but that's a bit tedious.

Thanks for the tips, you're absolutely right.

Followed the instructions from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23880...rect-paths




Works perfectly from cron now - thank you.

Thanks for posting that info - I'm sure others will run into the same problem.

For some reason, I was unable to set PATH within my user crontab on Slackware 14.1.

An alternative solution which worked for me was to spawn a bash login shell from which to launch get_iplayer; this way bash will use whatever PATH you have set up in your various bash profile files (.bashrc etc).

You can do this with a line in crontab that looks something like:




More info here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/...h-variable