From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 15:14:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD0D016A4CE for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:14:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.imacs.com (mail.imacs.com [65.106.207.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B29343D3F for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:14:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DSchimcek@imacs.com) Received: from imacs-exchange.hms-domain.local (imacs-exchange.imacs.com [172.16.5.3]) by mail.imacs.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1QNF6xi099228 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:15:06 -0600 (CST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:14:56 -0600 Message-ID: <6E6A0B9771347B49937E7E3F30153465BB3B18@imacs-exchange.hms-domain.local> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Cron and F-prot not working correctly Thread-Index: AcP8vs+QyQcio4+rT9CNV6uEEzfyCA== From: "Schimcek, Derrick" To: "Freebsd Questions (E-mail)" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.34 Subject: Cron and F-prot not working correctly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 23:14:57 -0000 I have a FreeBSD 5.0 and a FreeBSD 5.2 box both running recent versions = of f-prot antivirus when you run the virus def updater through cron it = gets halfway through the scripts and then dies. When you run it from the = command line it runs correctly. so I wrote my own script that uses ftp = instead of http and it exhibits the same behavior. does anyone know if = there is some cron issue I am missing or if cron has a time to let the = script run variable. any help will be greatly appreciated.=20