[Dirvish] Re: curious problem - dirvish does nothing when run

[Michael Nelson]

OK, I moved all the dirvish* binaries from /usr/local/sbin to /usr/sbin.  I
checked the path in /etc/crontab, and it is:
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin

I edited dirvish and dirvish-runall to make it run with the perl warnings
switch (-w) and it ran and finally produced some error output:

----- Forwarded message from CronDaemon <root at seahunt.dyndns.org> -----

Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:18:01 -0800
From: CronDaemon <root at seahunt.dyndns.org>
Subject: Cron <root at seahunt> /usr/sbin/dirvish-runall; echo "return was: $?."
To: root at seahunt.dyndns.org
X-Sorted: Admin

Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/sbin/dirvish-runall line 221.
Use of uninitialized value in array dereference at /usr/sbin/dirvish-runall line 233.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/sbin/dirvish-runall line 233.
08:18:01 dirvish --vault root
Can't exec "dirvish": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/dirvish-runall line 114.
08:18:01 dirvish --vault home
Can't exec "dirvish": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/dirvish-runall line 114.
08:18:01 done
return was: 2.

----- End forwarded message -----

However, the dirvish perl script is in /usr/sbin:

# ls -l /usr/sbin/dirvish*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28468 Jan 12 08:15 /usr/sbin/dirvish
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10736 Dec 24 07:58 /usr/sbin/dirvish-expire
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10493 Dec 24 07:58 /usr/sbin/dirvish-locate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  8167 Jan 12 08:15 /usr/sbin/dirvish-runall

...and as you can see from above, /usr/sbin/is in the cron's PATH.

I guess next I will write a script and set the PATH in there.

Michael

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