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

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

On 5/19/2011 4:02 AM, Nikolaus Schulz wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:08:40PM +0700, Tim Rice wrote:
>> On 5/17/2011 10:10 PM, Malahal Naineni wrote:
>>> Tim Rice [ti...@ph...] wrote:
>>>> 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.
>
> That looks like a good guess to me.
>
>>> 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.
>
> Changing code isn't necessary, the verbose command line switch -v also
> reveals this.
>
> Nikolaus

Yes, this was the problem, tracked down two rouge archivemail files in 
the tmp folder and deleted them. All is working perfectly now.

Thanks for everyone's help on this, I would never have figured this out 
without this forum.


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