Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:10:57 -0400 From: Bob Hall <rjhjr@cox.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab and GPG? Message-ID: <20051025231057.GA84395@kongemord.krig.net> In-Reply-To: <20051025190017.GF63163@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20051025131352.217826@bob> <20051025184502.GA83689@kongemord.krig.net> <20051025190017.GF63163@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:00:18PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:45:02PM -0400, Bob Hall 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" > > > > Take the "/bin/bash" out of your crontab. Put > > #!/bin/bash > > at the beginning of your script. > > What do you think that will do to help? It's a NOP, so it can't fix > the problem (which is because of bad assumptions about PATH, per my > other message). Well, I don't know whether "#!" is a NOP or not. It does tell the script which executable to use in executing the script. But I did make a mistake. Try whereis bash and use that path. Bob Hall
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