Re: [webmin-l] /etc/webmin/package-updates/update.pl script does not exist and cron job fails as a result

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 10/Jun/2013 09:38 Ben Johnson <be...@in...> wrote ..
> Hello,
> 
> Recently, I began noticing the following output from a cron job,
> /etc/webmin/package-updates/update.pl:
> 
> /bin/sh: /etc/webmin/package-updates/update.pl: not found
> 
> Has this script, /etc/webmin/package-updates/update.pl, been obsoleted
> and removed from Webmin? If so, I wonder why the Webmin update process
> did not remove this cron entry. (Maybe Webmin didn't create it in the
> first place, in which case failing to remove it makes sense.)
> 
> Curiously, I have two other systems that are nearly-identically
> configured, and this script *does* exist on one of the three servers.
> Its contents are as follows:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> open(CONF, "/etc/webmin/miniserv.conf");
> while(<CONF>) {
>         $root = $1 if (/^root=(.*)/);
>         }
> close(CONF);
> $ENV{'PERLLIB'} = "$root";
> $ENV{'WEBMIN_CONFIG'} = "/etc/webmin";
> $ENV{'WEBMIN_VAR'} = "/var/webmin";
> chdir("$root/package-updates");
> exec("$root/package-updates/update.pl", @ARGV) || die "Failed to run
> $root/package-updates/update.pl : $!";
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> My OS is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and my Webmin version is 1.630 (on all three
> servers).
> 
> Thanks for any help in determining whether this script should in fact be
> run on schedule or not.
> 
> If yes, then the more important question becomes, how did these script
> files disappear on several of my machines in the first place?

It's odd that the update.pl script would disappear like that.

To fix it, go to System -> Software Package Updates and click "Save" in the
"Scheduled checking options" form.

 - Jamie