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Date:      Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:13:52 -0500
From:      Robert Wall <cp@web-walrus.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Crontab and GPG?
Message-ID:  <20051025131352.217826@bob>

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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.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!



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