aws-cli 1.2.10 cron script fails

Question

I have a crontab that fires a PHP script that runs the AWS CLI command "aws ec2 create-snapshot".

When I run the script via the command line the php script completes successfully with the aws command returning a JSON string to PHP. But when I setup a crontab to run the php script the aws command doesn't return anything.

The crontab is running as the same user as when I run the PHP script on the command line myself, so I am a bit stumped?

Answer 1

I had the same problem with running a ruby script (ruby script.rb). I replace ruby by its full path (/sources/ruby-2.0.0-p195/ruby) and it worked. in you case, replace "aws" by its full path. to find it: find / -name "aws"