Crontab and GPG?

Robert Wall cp at web-walrus.com
Tue Oct 25 11:13:57 PDT 2005


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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