portmanager

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Mon Oct 10 02:50:09 PDT 2005


On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 22:30:26 -0700, "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: portmanager
Wrote these words of wisdom:

> On Sunday 09 October 2005 12:27, Alistair Sutton wrote:
> > On 09/10/05, Michael Lednev <reaper at reaper.hn.org> wrote:
> > > Hello, Alistair.
> > >
> > > that's another issue, currently portmanager from ports runs fine on
> > > 6.0-current in interactive environment, but coredumps from cron or
> > > something similar. the same behaviour on on 5.4-stable.
> >
> > Ah, my bad.
> >
> > I forgot that the version in ports is different from a development
> > snapshot that I've been trying to get working. :-)
> >
> > Al
> > --
> > GPG/PGP: http://www.no-dns-yet.org.uk/~everlone/pubkey.gpg
> 
> The problem with running portmanager from cron is PATH isn't set
> and the location of "make" for example isn't hardcoded throughout 
> portmanager's source.  If anyone feels like fixing this it would be much 
> appreciated, my plate is pretty full with a paying project so it may be 
> awhile before I get around to making this sort of a fix but I'll be happy to 
> assist someone else who wishes to take  on this project.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> ps. please make sure my address is in the reply-to, the maillist does not
> send replies to my own posts for some strange reason.
> 


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On 10/10/2005 5:45:56 AM, Gerard Seibert Replied:

Would it be possible to issue a $PATH statement from within the CRON to
alleviate this problem? I have not actually tried this method, but I do
use it for other programs that I run from CRON and it seems to works
just fine.

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Gerard Seibert
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