On Fri, 19 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 18 Jun, Chris Owen wrote:
> >
> > Probably me. We have not been able to get rundig (or more specifically
> > htmerge) to run from cron for several weeks.
> >
> > It fails every time it is run from cron. Running it manually (even in the
> > background) works flawlessly, but running htmerge from cron gets "Word
> > Sort Failed" every time. Prior to this it worked fine and it still works
> > fine on a second (nearly identical) machine, but on this machine all 4-5
> > instances of rundig fail with the same error when run from cron.
>
> Is it possible that, because of the different environment in which cron
> runs, that rundig is unable to find 'sort'?
>
> Try exporting the path to 'sort' in rundig and see if this helps.
I was hoping that might be true, but I ran a few tests and that isn't it.
I had a cron task email me the path and it is correct. Also while the
htdig process is running sort does indeed run:
768 ? S 0:00 sh /root/scripts/htdig/bin/rundig
771 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -or0s root
772 ? D 0:01 /root/scripts/htdig/bin/htmerge -s
773 ? S 0:11 /bin/sort /root/scripts/htdig/db/db.wordlist
In fact, everything looks good until the last second when it just says
"Sort Failed".
Chris
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