Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 09:31:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: ESMTP Admin <admin@esmtp.webtent.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Running cronjobs Message-ID: <20050603093111.P19601@wolf.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <1117740277.8471.32.camel@columbus> References: <1117740277.8471.32.camel@columbus>
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Check the value of $PATH when run manually and when run via cron. That's what always bites me... the PATH set by cron is usually pretty minimal... -philip On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, ESMTP Admin wrote: > Always worked well when I dump a script into the /etc/periodic/daily > folder and set permissions to have a script run automatically each > night. But this is not working for the Spamassassin rulesdujour script. > I can run the script manually, no problem, any ideas? Here is the bottom > of that directory, my own scripts prefixed with 'webtent' and the backup > and cvsports scripts run perfectly. > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 723 Jan 10 2004 500.queuerun > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7432 Dec 14 09:08 800.webtent-backup > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 71 Mar 22 12:43 810.webtent-cvsports > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 50364 Mar 23 23:41 820.webtent-rulesdujour > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 712 Jan 10 2004 999.local > > My daily run log shows the cvsports activity and stops right there: > > ... > Edit ports/x11-wm/xfce4-session/Makefile > Edit ports/x11-wm/xfce4-session/pkg-plist > Finished successfully > > 666196 bytes transferred in 2.5 seconds (263.32 kBps) > > -- End of daily output -- > > -- > Robert > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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