I guess I'm clueless here ... why would you need to add anything to
your PATH to make a cron job work? What's incorrect about the
following:
The default path that cron uses is in 10.4 is "/usr/bin:/bin", which
is fine for some cron entries - until you try to use a command like
"chown" that lives somewhere else . (chown is in /usr/sbin.)
You can either spell out the full path to everything, or set the PATH
variable in the crontab itself to include a few more folders.
