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Date:      Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:00:18 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Bob Hall <rjhjr@cox.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Crontab and GPG?
Message-ID:  <20051025190017.GF63163@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051025184502.GA83689@kongemord.krig.net>
References:  <20051025131352.217826@bob> <20051025184502.GA83689@kongemord.krig.net>

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On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:45:02PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:13:52PM -0500, Robert Wall wrote:
> > Hello!  I'm attempting to run GPG from cron, and it's not working.  I c=
an run the script from the command line, and all works perfectly.  When I t=
ry to run it from cron, however, it doesn't work.  The crontab calls this s=
cript, called "pgpdecrypt" with the following crontab line:
> >=20
> > */1    *       *       *       *       root    /bin/bash /etc/pgpdecrypt
> >=20
> > The /bin/bash wasn't originally there; I added it to make sure that the=
 script was using the correct shell.  Still no luck.  Here's the script tha=
t it calls:
> >=20
> > echo >> /etc/pgpdecrypt.logger "PGP Decrypter Starting"
>=20
> Take the "/bin/bash" out of your crontab. Put
> 	#!/bin/bash
> at the beginning of your script.

What do you think that will do to help?  It's a NOP, so it can't fix
the problem (which is because of bad assumptions about PATH, per my
other message).

Kris

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