From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 15:06:35 2008 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 86A48106567A; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:06:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msoulier@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f11.google.com (mail-gx0-f11.google.com [209.85.217.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104178FC13; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:06:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msoulier@gmail.com) Received: by gxk4 with SMTP id 4so1605939gxk.13 for ; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:06:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=eMY9MSguPn18cxg9dV53/86Wzhu0LtwC9BcdyZovDRY=; b=cVYv9nSh7/hNnxCSjc+55Tqcm+y4TB/NCu9BVyLtXQP6SbLCgUp8ZBd9l4VbnJB2UV BKNx/M3Aex8eH0+ENxlcGySuMceA+HGqkxUHijrZSAXPziddxK7uee6IkBjE7u5yz7/W H7jBEeians9Vc94s+40BvHwTVMeyyO4t8NuoQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=KVL0t4Uh29Ax9SkutfkhK6g90FoJCwUO/szc4dL1SVyYQamEqdZ9RyraOL6ozn6BAT 5rSKW3nfbZg5L2TNVhifm/E2fYjk2O2T+CfuqASrGIf5Y7OW77UqwJAo/J94YnRuZ5+4 mVFkkPVVk4/WAzQUiKBsQmbQJsk3WCDcYNtCU= Received: by 10.151.15.9 with SMTP id s9mr665952ybi.215.1226243190375; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:06:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.135.4 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 07:06:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:06:30 -0500 From: "Michael P. Soulier" Sender: msoulier@gmail.com To: "Jeremy Chadwick" In-Reply-To: <20081109123640.GA39105@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081109123640.GA39105@icarus.home.lan> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2b2add9a03bd4d61 Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: debugging cronjobs not running 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: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:06:35 -0000 On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I'm not sure why you sent this to me directly, but I do appreciate you > CC'ing the mailing lists. :-) Old thread, my bad. > No, this has never happened to me, or on any of the systems I've > administrated. Found it. The problem was several things. 1. The 6.3 upgrade merged in a HOME of /var/log in crontab, which broke some $HOME references in some of my jobs. 2. My /etc/aliases.db hadn't been used in some time, /etc/mail/aliases.db was. All fixed. The parse error in the debug was apparently not service affecting. I suspect it's looking for environment variables set before the command to run, judging by some of the code snippets I looked at. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein