restart named in a cron

[Kevin Kinsey]

Nicolas Letellier wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I want to restart named in a script executed by a cron. My script is:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # verify named conf and restart it
> /usr/sbin/named-checkconf
> if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then
>         echo "Errors when verifying named configuration"
>         exit 1
> else
>         /etc/rc.d/named restart > /dev/null
> fi
> 
> # Ok, it's done
> exit 0
> 
> 
> However, the cron returns some errors:
> umount: not found
> mtree: not found
> umount: not found
> mount: not found
> /etc/rc.d/named: WARNING: devfs_domount(): Unable to mount devfs on /var/named/dev
> devfs: not found
> devfs: not found
> 
> I can restart named manually, but not with a cron.
> 
> Do you have an idea to solve this problem? Why could I restart it manually and not with a cron?
> 

cron doesn't know about your $PATH, but has a very limited $PATH
of its own.  Rewrite the script using the full pathnames to the
desired executables.

Kevin Kinsey

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