Problem with background downloading

[n00b12345]

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I'm running youtube-dl on a Raspberry Pi.

I have a bash script which enables me to run youtube-dl. It's nothing fancy, just has a simple youtube-dl command.

I am able to download videos perfectly when I run the bash script in the foreground.

However, whenever I run it in the background by initiating it through a cron job, I run into a problem. Everything other than the youtube-dl command gets executed. In order to debug, I tried adding -v to the command and exporting the output to a log file. Unfortunately the script completely skips the youtube-dl command and the log file remains empty.

Like I said, the exact same script runs perfectly when run from the foreground.

The issue I face is similar to #10996 and #10706.

A little help would really be great.

[dstftw]

Most likely youtube-dl is not in PATH for a user cron job is running on behalf of and you did not redirect stderr to a log file.

[n00b12345]

@dstftw thank you so much. Using /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl totally solved the issue. Thanks for helping.