Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:27:26 -0600 From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Robert Wall <cp@web-walrus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab and GPG? Message-ID: <F9D3FD5B-53B0-489D-ACB1-10FC229E2472@dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <20051025181832.GA61086@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20051025131352.217826@bob> <20051025181832.GA61086@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Oct 25, 2005, at 12:18 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:13:52PM -0500, Robert Wall wrote: > >> Hello! I'm attempting to run GPG from cron, and it's not >> working. I can run the script from the command line, and all >> works perfectly. When I try to run it from cron, however, it >> doesn't work. The crontab calls this script, called "pgpdecrypt" >> with the following crontab line: >> >> */1 * * * * root /bin/bash /etc/ >> pgpdecrypt >> >> The /bin/bash wasn't originally there; I added it to make sure >> that the script was using the correct shell. Still no luck. >> Here's the script that it calls: >> >> echo >> /etc/pgpdecrypt.logger "PGP Decrypter Starting" >> cd /home/folder >> for filename in `ls *pgp` >> do >> gpg --batch --no-tty --passphrase-fd 0 --output /home/folder/pgp- >> decrypted/$filename.txt --decrypt /home/folder/$filename < /home/ >> folder/pp >> /home/folder/pgp-decrypted/import.pl /home/folder/pgp-decrypted/ >> $filename.txt >> echo >> /etc/pgpdecrypt.logger "/home/folder/$filename /home/ >> folder/pgp-original/$filename" >> done >> >> The output file is cheerfully logging the filenames >> appropriately. /var/log/messages doesn't contain any errors. >> Anybody got any ideas? Even if I could get a competent logging >> mechanism in place to see why GPG doesn't feel like running, that >> would be great. >> > > You're assuming gpg is in PATH, which it probably isn't. crontab > errors aren't logged in /var/log/messages anyway (they're mailed to > you) - see the manpages. In addition to PATH you will also need to verify that LOGNAME and HOME are set in the script. Dan
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