Re: cron script won't run

["Adam T. Bowen" <adam.bowen@connectinternetsolutions.com>]

Hi,

Matthew Metzger wrote:
> I have a script that works great when I run it from the command line,
> but doesn't work at all when added to crontab. 

# cat /dev/sysadm/mantra
The environment from within cron is not necessarily the same as that of
an interactive shell.

> The strange part is that
> /var/log/cron shows the job running:
> 
> Sep 26 03:39:01 cono crond[25241]: (root) CMD
> (/etc/cron.3min/mail-restart.sh)
> 
> However, the log shows some other errors that may have something to do
> with it.
> 
> PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_krb5.so
> (root) CMD (/etc/cron.3min/mail-restart.sh)
> PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_krb5.so)
> PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_krb5.so: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory]

Is the PAM Kerberos package installed on your system?  Does the file
/lib/security/pam_krb5.so actually exist?  Perhaps something in your
script is triggering authentication through Kerberos.  You could:

grep /etc/pam.d/* krb

to reveal any specific pam configurations that are trying to use
Kerberos.  I can't be of much more help I'm afraid.  Sticking a load of
echo statements into the mail-restart.sh script could reveal what line
in your script is causing the error.

Cheers

Adam