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When I wrote the question, and I realized the only thing I didn't try was the full path, my first thought was to put the full path in and see if that worked. You answered the question in the meanwhile, and that proved the solution worked.<br />
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Thanks!
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When I wrote the question, and I realized the only thing I didn't try was the full path, my first thought was to put the full path in and see if that worked. You answered the question in the meanwhile, and that proved the solution worked.

Thanks!

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I was wondering how I would be able to do a freebsd-update via root's crontab (not /etc/crontab) with the following switches:<br />
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-s,-k and -t<br />
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for example:<br />
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@daily freebsd-update -s myserver -k longhashkey -t email@somwhere.com cron<br />
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I can run this on the command line with sudo, and it works, however I can't seem to get this to work via root's cron. The only item I have not tried is using the full path of freebsd-update in the cron.
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I was wondering how I would be able to do a freebsd-update via root's crontab (not /etc/crontab) with the following switches:

-s,-k and -t

for example:

@daily freebsd-update -s myserver -k longhashkey -t email@somwhere.com cron

I can run this on the command line with sudo, and it works, however I can't seem to get this to work via root's cron. The only item I have not tried is using the full path of freebsd-update in the cron.

freebsd-update via cron

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