portupgrade failure

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Warren Block wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Kevin wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> 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

And now that I tried a test with these manual paths, the same thing 
happens:

# setenv PATH /etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
# env ruby
env: ruby: No such file or directory

Doh.  ruby and ruby18 are in /usr/local/bin.

So it's working as designed.  A reasonable way to fix this is to add 
:/usr/local/bin to the crontab path, but that may not be the right way 
to fix it.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA