09-20-2008
Strange error on mpack from cronjob
I have a shell script which mails a file. It runs fine when executed at prompt, but from cronjob the following line gives an error:
HTML Code:
$ /opt/local/bin/mpack -s "TTW posts " $FILEPATH/ttw.html myemail@gmail.com
Error is : (some junk chars) followed by
No such file or directory.
Before this line ,I have `
head`ed the file to ensure it is found by cron - IT IS. I have also `
which`ed mpack and it (cron) gives the full path. So I am stumped as to why it should fail from cron. Both file and executable are found!
Strangely, after this I also
'links -dump' the file and use mail to mail it to my localhost. Links is also in /opt/local and this line works fine. However, since the stock '
mail' program cannot send an attach, therefore I needed to use mpack.
Doing
'ls -l' on mpack shows it is readable and executable by all -- same as other commands in /opt.
Last edited by sentinel; 09-21-2008 at 04:59 AM..
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uudemon(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual uudemon(4)
NAME
uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour, uudemon.poll - Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool
directories, reporting status to the system administrator, and routine invocations of the uuxqt and uusched daemons
SYNOPSIS
These shell scripts reside in the following directory:
/usr/lib/uucp
DESCRIPTION
All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the scripts, remove
the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file.
This script reports status to the system administrator. It issues the uustat command to find out the status of uucp jobs. It mails the
results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID (uucpa) or
root. This script cleans up the /var/spool/uucp and /var/spool/uucppublic directories by running the uucleanup command. The uucleanup com-
mand is run with the following parameters: -C7, -D7, X2, -o2, -W1. This script runs the uusched and uuxqt daemons in the background. This
script polls the systems listed in the /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file. The uudemon.poll script should be scheduled before the uudemon.hour
script. This allows uudemon.poll to create any command files before cron runs the uudemon.hour script.
FILES
Contains the uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour and uudemon.poll files. Contains the uucp file.
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: cron(8), uucleanup(8), uusched(8), uuxqt(1)
Files: /usr/lib/uucp delim off
uudemon(4)