restart named in a cron

[Manolis Kiagias]

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?
>
> Thanks!
>
>   
Well, probably cron does not share your environment, thus it does not  
have your PATH. It  simply cannot find the commands you see as "not found".
Try inserting something like:

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

at the top of your script. Alternatively, you could use full paths to 
the commands in the script, but it seems the errors come from the system 
scriprt, /etc/rc.d/named and you wouldn't want to touch that.