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From: Cristian KLEIN <cristi@net.utcluj.ro>
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Subject: Re: portaudit in periodic
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Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Cristian KLEIN ha scritto:
> 
>> I used to have problem with cron scripts, because cron uses another
>> PATH then
>> what the script gets if it's run from the shell. Could you try the
>> following
>> (assuming sh):
>>
>> export SHELL=/bin/sh
>> export PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
>> export HOME=/var/log
>> periodic daily
>>
>>
> 
> Sorry if I reply this late: I tried something similar in crontab and let
> it test for a while, but nothing changed.
> I'm really out of ideas here. :-(

But have you tried running these commands from the shell? It is very important
to check the scripts with the above SHELL & PATH environment. If the above works
from the shell, I'm pretty much out of ideas too.