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Thanks, Stephen. I thought it might be an environment problem, but
printenv never even crossed my mind. In my defense, I was working on
this thing into the wee hours... That doesn't excuse this morning,
though. :) This showed me the way... wget wasn't in the limited path
of the cron job.<br>
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Rick<br>
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From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info">mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:mailscanner">mailto:mailscanner</a>-
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bounces@lists.mailscanner.info">bounces@lists.mailscanner.info</a>] On Behalf Of Rick Chadderdon
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 1:49 PM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: FreeBSD 6 - update_virus_scanners weirdness
FreeBSD 6.0
MailScanner 4.51.6
Perl 5.8.8
This is a freshly built server, starting from a minimal FreeBSD 6.0
install. I installed MailScanner from ports after manually downloading
MailScanner-install-4.51.6-1.tar.gz and fixing up the port to reflect
the newer version of the file.
If update_virus_scanners (or even update_virus_scanners.cron) is run
manually (as root), everything works fine. If either is launched as a
cron job (as root), the f-prot autoupdater fails with the error:
"Updates download from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://updates.f-prot.com">http://updates.f-prot.com</a> failed. Suspect server
could not be reached," The f-prot-autoupdate script also works fine if
run directly. I installed the systutils/rc_subr port since
update_virus_scanners.cron used it. Also installed are clamav and
bitdefender, and their updates seem to work fine from the cron job. I
disabled the ipfilter firewall for testing, but the problem still
occurs. There is no proxy server. MailScanner is working great, as
always.
Anyone have an idea what's happening here?
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This is not a MailScanner problem. Cron jobs run in a different, normally
more restricted, environment than root's normal shell.
Setup a cron job that just runs `printenv` and compare that with the results
of running `printenv` from a normal root shell.
Hope this helps,
Steve
Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stephen.swaney@fsl.com">stephen.swaney@fsl.com</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.fsl.com">www.fsl.com</a>
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