From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 4 21:28:08 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 7C0FF10656A5 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:28:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.1.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3576C8FC18 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:28:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B2F138E41; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:28:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from teddy.fas.com (c-76-26-200-187.hsd1.sc.comcast.net [76.26.200.187]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32FFA349BC; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:28:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MjgKE-00044I-00; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:28:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:28:06 -0400 From: stan To: Mel Flynn Message-ID: <20090904212806.GA15488@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Mel Flynn , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090903114857.GA635@teddy.fas.com> <200909032341.28748.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <20090904142807.GA5339@teddy.fas.com> <200909041704.19865.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200909041704.19865.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 17:26:13 up 34 days, 22:28, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.06 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 21:28:08 -0000 On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 05:04:19PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: > 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. OK, I am thinking that I have a ,forward file in crickets hme directtory. I will check. -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.