I installed ImageMagick 6.3.8 on my Linux computer because it was generating bad PNG images. My Windows computer was generating good PNG images using the same files and the same Imagemagick command.
After installing version 6.3.8, I logged the root user out, logged myself in, ran my scripts and found that the image problem was solved. Excellent. However, I have a crontab that runs my scripts every night to generate new images. When cron runs the script, it uses the pre-existing version of Imagemagick and the images are poor again. I installed from source as the root user and followed these instructions ( http://www.imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php#unix). I chose to install Imagemagick 6.3.8 in /usr/share/ImageMagick-6.3.8/ because I found a pre-existing /usr/share/ImageMagick-6.2.2/ directory. What I've noticed is that /usr/bin/ contains the Imagemagick utilities like "mogrify" and I'm guessing that cron is using those and ignoring what's in /usr/share/ImageMagick-6.3.8/utilities/. I've tried including /usr/share/ImageMagick-6.3.8/utilities/ in the PATH variable for cron. That doesn't work. I tried setting the SHELL variable to /bin/bash for cron. That didn't work. Linux administration is not my strength although I want to become competent. Can anyone give me a hint regarding why I can login and invoke "mogrify -version" and see "Version: ImageMagick 6.3.8 02/11/08 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org"; and when I set a crontab to invoke "mogrify -version" it sees "Version: ImageMagick 6.2.2 01/23/06 Q16 file:/usr/share/ImageMagick-6.2.2/doc/index.html"? Thanks for your help. Peter _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
