Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:54:25 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: David Goodnature <goodnaturenet@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot get Script to Run Via Crontab Message-ID: <20071217075424.GB2398@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <BLU127-W2769D67D198ACB69ECC1B5AA610@phx.gbl> References: <BLU127-W2769D67D198ACB69ECC1B5AA610@phx.gbl>
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On 2007-12-16 19:10, David Goodnature <goodnaturenet@hotmail.com> wrote: > I have a perl script that I can execute from the command line as root. > It runs fine. When I try to automate it using the root crontab, the > script fails. > > The lines from my script that are causing the problem are: > > my $scomd = "/usr/local/bin/ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dDownsampleMonoImages=true -dMonoImageDownsampleType=/Average -dMonoImageDownsampleThreshold=1.5 -dMonoImageResolution=600 ".$inpath.$cur_ps_files[0]." ".$outpath.$pdffilename; > > ### create the new .pdf file from the .ps file > system($scomd) == 0 or return "system $scomd failed: $?"; > > The cron message to mail/root ends with: > > exec: ps2pdf12: not found > > I am assuming that cron cannot find a path or a config file for > ghostscript, but I don't have any idea how to fix this problem. Yes. That's what is happenning. The default PATH of cron jobs doesn't include `/usr/local/bin', but you have lots of options: 1) Add it to the crontab file PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin" crontab entries here 2) Modify the default path in your Perl script: $ENV{PATH} = '/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin'; my $scomd = join(' ', ('/usr/local/bin/ps2pdf', '-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress', '-dProcessColorModel=/DeviceGray', '-dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage', '-dDownsampleMonoImages=true', '-dMonoImageDownsampleType=/Average', '-dMonoImageDownsampleThreshold=1.5', '-dMonoImageResolution=600' $inpath.$cur_ps_files[0], $outpath.$pdffilename)); system($scomd) == 0 or return "system $scomd failed: $?";
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