Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:00:18 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Bob Hall <rjhjr@cox.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab and GPG? Message-ID: <20051025190017.GF63163@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051025184502.GA83689@kongemord.krig.net> References: <20051025131352.217826@bob> <20051025184502.GA83689@kongemord.krig.net>
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--aPdhxNJGSeOG9wFI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 c= an run the script from the command line, and all works perfectly. When I t= ry to run it from cron, however, it doesn't work. The crontab calls this s= cript, called "pgpdecrypt" with the following crontab line: > >=20 > > */1 * * * * root /bin/bash /etc/pgpdecrypt > >=20 > > 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 tha= t it calls: > >=20 > > echo >> /etc/pgpdecrypt.logger "PGP Decrypter Starting" >=20 > 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). Kris --aPdhxNJGSeOG9wFI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDXoDBWry0BWjoQKURAoRZAKD6PZjmb7UXdY4d6CiJiNV1j14+dgCeMhXV XY0K2prvQWy/qlJxYrX4lpM= =EBR4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aPdhxNJGSeOG9wFI--
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