Sat, 17 Jul 2004 03:31:09 +1000 tarihinde, Doug Laidlaw dedi ki:

> As part of a spam detection setup, I have included the following in
> /etc/cron.hourly:
>
> #!/bin/tcsh
> # Updates accept-list
> su -l doug -c "~doug/.PROCMAIL/scripts/procmail-list-update.cron" >&
> /dev/null
>
> If I cd to /etc/cron.hourly, I can 4run it directly, and it calls the script
> it is supposed to. But if I let it run in the usual way, I get the
> following mail from cron:
>
> MANPATH: Undefined variable.
> run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/accept_list.cron exited with return code 1
>
> I can't see where MANPATH is defined. I assumed that it was the path to man
> pages, but it is :/usr/lib/jdk-1.4.2_01/man:/usr/lib/jdk-1.4.2_01/man
>
> This isn't used anywhere in the cron entry or the script it calls.
>
> What is going on?
>
> Doug.

Cron environment differs from user environment. So it is possible that
some env vars missing or different. I would suggest, speaking in bash, a
"echo -e $MANPATH \n $PATH" or "env" both in cron.hourly and in
procmail-list-update.cron script, and compare them to your login
variables. You may need to set MANPATH (possibly also PATH) explicitly in
cron.hourly. As for why it should be needed in the first place, I don't
know but I guess it must be referred to indirectly from within
procmail-list-update.cron.

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