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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Strange error on mpack from cronjob Post 302238612 by sentinel on Sunday 21st of September 2008 03:56:40 AM
Old 09-21-2008
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Originally Posted by unSpawn
If $FILEPATH is not known in cron env you could make it use a default with "${FILEPATH:=/some/dir}/ttw.html".
The issue is not with filepath. Since in the previous line I am doing a head on the file, and the file is read fine. (Earlier I hardcoded the filepath)

Cron is finding mpack, and it is finding the file.

I even did things like putting the email id in quotes just incase /bin/sh is griping on the @. However, if that were the case, then it would not work when I put in my own python email script. The same cron is able to send the file through my script. (However, the way mpack encodes is different from the way my python script does, so i want to use mpack).
 

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NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes. ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. Scripts must not rely on this variable being set to select a specific interpreter. EXAMPLES
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