Crontab and GPG?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:10:57PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:00:18PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:45:02PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:13:52PM -0500, Robert Wall wrote:
> > > > 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"
> > > 
> > > Take the "/bin/bash" out of your crontab. Put
> > > 	#!/bin/bash
> > > at the beginning of your script.
> > 
> > What do you think that will do to help?  It's a NOP, so it can't fix
> > the problem (which is because of bad assumptions about PATH, per my
> > other message).
> 
> Well, I don't know whether "#!" is a NOP or not. It does tell the script
> which executable to use in executing the script.

Yeah, which he was already doing explicitly (see above) ;-)

Kris
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