From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 4 15:04:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6141065672 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:04:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB5108FC20 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:04:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smoochies.rachie.is-a-geek.net (mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 494667E853; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 07:04:34 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:04:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-BETA3; KDE/4.2.4; i386; ; ) References: <20090903114857.GA635@teddy.fas.com> <200909032341.28748.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <20090904142807.GA5339@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20090904142807.GA5339@teddy.fas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909041704.19865.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: stan Subject: Re: What invokes cricket on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:04:24 -0000 On Friday 04 September 2009 16:28:07 stan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:41:28PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:23:47 stan wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:10:13PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > > > > On Thursday 03 September 2009 21:02:41 stan wrote: > > > > > pnoc# cat collect-subtrees > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > > > > > > > echo STARTED >> /tmp/stan > > > > > which perl >> /tmp/stan > > > > > /usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees.pl normal >> /tmp/stan > > > > > echo Done >> /tmp/stan > > > > > > > > > > /tmp stan contains: > > > > > > > > > > pnoc# cat /tmp/stan > > > > > STARTED > > > > > /usr/bin/perl > > > > > Done > > > > > STARTED > > > > > /usr/bin/perl > > > > > Done > > > > > > > > > > So, cron is invoking the correct command, and perl can be found, > > > > > but the original collect_subtrees perl script silently dies. > > > > > > > > > > I am convinced it's an environemt probkl`lem, I am just uncertain > > > > > how to determine what. > > > > > > > > I'm not anymore. I'm putting 1 cent on a broken /usr/bin/perl symlink > > > > (perl upgrade gone bonkers, f.e. done with ro mounted /usr) and > > > > another cent on the perl script using system() function, with > > > > pathless commands (that is environment). > > > > Ok, one liner: > > su -m cricket env -i HOME=/usr/local/cricket PATH=/bin:/usr/bin \ > > /usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees.pl normal > > > > I've downloaded the 1.0.5 version, but can't quickly see where that would > > go wrong with this script. touch is in /usr/bin, so that should work. Any > > cron messages in /var/mail/cricket? > > I am away from work today, and won't be back till Tuesday. I can't access > this from home. > > I will try your test then. The only messages that are getting to > /var/log/cron is just the one saying that the task was executed. Yea, the error messages end up in /var/mail/$USER or MAILTO variable if set in crontab. /var/log/maillog should have some tell tales. -- Mel