Unable to run a service command via cron

service cron
Ash picture Ash · Nov 14, 2011 · Viewed 23.9k times · Source 
service service_name start

When i tried running this from cmd line, it works. But when i try to schedule it via cron, i get an error saying

/bin/sh: service: command not found

Answer

Dark Falcon picture Dark Falcon · Nov 14, 2011

sbin is not in the path when run via cron. Specify the full path to service. This is probably either /sbin/service or /usr/sbin/service. You can find the path on your system by running which service.

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