What invokes cricket on FreeBSD

[stan]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:41:28PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote:
> On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:23:47 stan wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:10:13PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote:
> > > On Thursday 03 September 2009 21:02:41 stan wrote:
> > > > pnoc# cat collect-subtrees
> > > > #!/bin/sh
> > > >
> > > > echo STARTED >> /tmp/stan
> > > > which perl >> /tmp/stan
> > > > /usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees.pl normal >> /tmp/stan
> > > > echo Done >> /tmp/stan
> > > >
> > > > /tmp stan contains:
> > > >
> > > > pnoc# cat /tmp/stan
> > > > STARTED
> > > > /usr/bin/perl
> > > > Done
> > > > STARTED
> > > > /usr/bin/perl
> > > > Done
> > > >
> > > > So, cron is invoking the correct command, and perl can be found, but
> > > > the original collect_subtrees perl script silently dies.
> > > >
> > > > I am convinced it's an environemt probkl`lem, I am just uncertain how
> > > > to determine what.
> > >
> > > I'm not anymore. I'm putting 1 cent on a broken /usr/bin/perl symlink
> > > (perl upgrade gone bonkers, f.e. done with ro mounted /usr) and another
> > > cent on the perl script using system() function, with pathless commands
> > > (that is environment).
> 
> Ok, one liner:
> su -m cricket env -i HOME=/usr/local/cricket PATH=/bin:/usr/bin \
>    /usr/local/cricket/cricket/collect-subtrees.pl normal
> 
> I've downloaded the 1.0.5 version, but can't quickly see where that would go 
> wrong with this script. touch is in /usr/bin, so that should work.
> Any cron messages in /var/mail/cricket?

I am away from work today, and won't be back till Tuesday. I can't access
this from home.

I will try your test then. The only messages that are getting to
/var/log/cron is just the one saying that the task was executed.


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