Re: [htdig] Issues with Cron

[Jerry S. <je...@sa...>]

>I have been working with the cron script for running htdig on a 
>Solaris 8 server.  I have been looking through the archives of this 
>newsgroup to find anything, but haven't found the answer to my 
>problem as of yet.  Like some of the other people, the rundig script 
>works fine when run manually, but if run from cron, it completes 
>immediately and doesn't to the "dig" or the "merge".  Typically if a 
>script runs manually, but not through a cron it means that there is 
>an environment setting that is missed, but all of the paths are 
>explicitly stated in the cron script.

I had a problem with this on Mac OS X where the problem was apparently that sendmail is turned off by default. Cron attempts to route any output through sendmail, and htdig can create a lot of output.

I still don't know exactly what was happening. There were no errors reported that I could see; the htdig process simply disappeared after about five minutes--but of course it ran fine on the command line, where the output wasn't being routed through the broken sendmail.

My solution was to turn sendmail on. Once I did this, I had no more problems using rundig in cron.

Jerry
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