Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > I'm running a dozen boxes (most being 6.2) with portaudit installed and > I usually get a port vulnerability report in the daily security run. > > On one box, however, portaudit's db won't update automatically. The > security reports will mention no vulnerability, even when I know they > are there. > Running "periodic daily" from a shell does it all for good, so that for > a few days I'll see the correct warnings.
I used to have problem with cron scripts, because cron uses another PATH then what the script gets if it's run from the shell. Could you try the following (assuming sh): export SHELL=/bin/sh export PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin export HOME=/var/log periodic daily _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"