Ping fails inside cron

[ProfM2]

I have Ping setup inside of a command-line script that, when run on the command-line, everything works great. I get valid data.

However, when I place the exact same command inside of a crontab, Ping returns with a 'false', however the rest of the script works perfectly, so I know that everything is running fine.

I'm using the exec() style of calling. Is there a better method to get valid data from within a cron job?

[Mjuk-Biltvatt]

@ProfM2 did you ever find a solution?

[ProfM2]

Unfortunately no. I ended up removing the ping check for the cron process.

[ProfM2]

Well, I needed this feature to work, so after a bit of testing, discovered in my crontab file, /bin was not in the path. After adding that, ping works great.

[geerlingguy]

Thanks for posting your solution! Just noting that 99% of the time when I have an issue that comes up during cron runs but not when run as the regular user, it comes down to the $PATH or some other env variable being different.