restart named in a cron

[Nicolas Letellier]

Le Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:48:42 +0300,
Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 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.
>
Thanks, it works when I define my PATH in the script. Indeed, I
couldn't add full path in the script because the error was due
to /etc/rc.d/named script.

Thanks for the help!

-- 
 - Nicolas.