Re: [archivemail-user] error message when running with Crontab

[Tim R. <ti...@ph...>]

On 5/17/2011 10:10 PM, Malahal Naineni wrote:
> Tim Rice [ti...@ph...] wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I get the following errors when running under crontab. If I run from
>> the command line I don't get any errors.
>>
>> Any idea why Cran is breaking this?
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/local/bin/archivemail", line 1604, in<module>
>>     main()
>>   File "/usr/local/bin/archivemail", line 703, in main
>>     archive(mailbox_path)
>>   File "/usr/local/bin/archivemail", line 1149, in archive
>>     _archive_mbox(mailbox_name, final_archive_name)
>>   File "/usr/local/bin/archivemail", line 1220, in _archive_mbox
>>     retain.write(msg)
>>   File "/usr/local/bin/archivemail", line 384, in write
>>     self.mbox_file.write(body)
>> IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device
>
> Just looked at the code. The archivemail creates a temporary file using
> tempfile.mkstemp("retain"). "dir" is not specified, so a default
> directory is used. The default directory is chosen from a
> platform-dependent list, but the user of the application can control the
> directory location by setting the TMPDIR, TEMP or TMP environment
> variables.
>
> So it boils down to the difference of environment variables setting of
> TMPDIR, TEMP or TMP under those two execution environments (cron vs
> direct).
>
> If you are comfortable with python, you can just log 'temp_name' in
> RetainMbox class just after this "temp_name = tempfile.mkstemp("retain")[1]"
> and see what it is under those two different execution environments.
>
> Hope that helps!
> Malahal.

Hi Malahal,

Thanks for the reply, I'm not that good with Python, but I may be able 
to find that information out. What you are saying makes sense and I'll 
defiantly pursue it.

Thanks for the input

Tim



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