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Date:      Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:37:30 -0400
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        Nicolas Letellier <nicolas@nicoelro.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: restart named in a cron
Message-ID:  <20080624183730.GA93973@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20080624201720.e90b1a07.nicolas@nicoelro.net>
References:  <20080624201720.e90b1a07.nicolas@nicoelro.net>

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On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:17:20PM +0200, Nicolas Letellier wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I want to restart named in a script executed by a cron. My script is:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # verify named conf and restart it
> /usr/sbin/named-checkconf
> if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]; then
>         echo "Errors when verifying named configuration"
>         exit 1
> else
>         /etc/rc.d/named restart > /dev/null
> fi
> 
> # Ok, it's done
> exit 0
> 
> 
> However, the cron returns some errors:
> umount: not found
> mtree: not found
> umount: not found
> mount: not found
> /etc/rc.d/named: WARNING: devfs_domount(): Unable to mount devfs on /var/named/dev
> devfs: not found
> devfs: not found
> 
> I can restart named manually, but not with a cron.
> 
> Do you have an idea to solve this problem? Why could I restart it 
> manually and not with a cron?

The CRON jog is missing /sbin and /usr/sbin from its path.
Try setting $PATH in the script.

////jerry


> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
>  -Nicolas.
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