On Oct 25, 2005, at 12:18 PM, Kris Kennaway 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 can run the script from the command line, and all
works perfectly. When I try to run it from cron, however, it
doesn't work. The crontab calls this script, called "pgpdecrypt"
with the following crontab line:
*/1 * * * * root /bin/bash /etc/
pgpdecrypt
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 that it calls:
echo >> /etc/pgpdecrypt.logger "PGP Decrypter Starting"
cd /home/folder
for filename in `ls *pgp`
do
gpg --batch --no-tty --passphrase-fd 0 --output /home/folder/pgp-
decrypted/$filename.txt --decrypt /home/folder/$filename < /home/
folder/pp
/home/folder/pgp-decrypted/import.pl /home/folder/pgp-decrypted/
$filename.txt
echo >> /etc/pgpdecrypt.logger "/home/folder/$filename /home/
folder/pgp-original/$filename"
done
The output file is cheerfully logging the filenames
appropriately. /var/log/messages doesn't contain any errors.
Anybody got any ideas? Even if I could get a competent logging
mechanism in place to see why GPG doesn't feel like running, that
would be great.
You're assuming gpg is in PATH, which it probably isn't. crontab
errors aren't logged in /var/log/messages anyway (they're mailed to
you) - see the manpages.
In addition to PATH you will also need to verify that LOGNAME and
HOME are set in the script.
Dan
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