portupgrade failure

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Kevin wrote:

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> The only other symptoms I can identify right now are related to the
> following entries in my crontab:
>
> 0 2 * * 6       /usr/local/sbin/portsclean -DD
> 0 2 * * 5       /usr/local/sbin/portsclean -C
>
> The e-mailed results simply say "env: ruby: No such file or
> directory". However, these commands seem to run fine from an
> interactive shell (while logged in).

Paths.  When there's a problem with cron it's (almost) always paths. 
portsclean is a ruby script that starts with this line:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

That should find and run ruby.  Your /etc/crontab should have these 
lines:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

> I also receive the same message at the end of the output for
> "/usr/sbin/portsnap cron update && /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -u >
> /dev/null" run from cron:

portsdb is another ruby script.  Same deal; cron running env can't find 
ruby.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA