What invokes cricket on FreeBSD

[stan]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 05:04:19PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote:
> On Friday 04 September 2009 16:28:07 stan wrote:
> > 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.
> Yea, the error messages end up in /var/mail/$USER or MAILTO variable if set in 
> crontab. /var/log/maillog should have some tell tales.

That turned out to be the information I needed to solve theproblem. I had
told my contractor to put a .forward in every non user uer'es account (such
as Cricket), and he had not done that. had he done that I would have gotten
the needed inforamtion, when I first brought the system abck up.

Turns out there was a lockfile, and Cricket was emailing me, asking me to
remove it if it was satle :-( Removing it solved the mystery.

Thanks for all the help, everyone!!

Subtree normal is currently being processed. If this is a mistake,
use "rm /tmp/cricket-subtree-normal" to unlock it.

-- 
One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking
zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C
programs.