Re: [webmin-l] Odd problems with cron jobs

On 07/Nov/2016 02:14 Joaquim Homrighausen <[email protected]> wrote ..
> I have a few cron jobs that send out reminders for the Redmine application.
> 
> They are executed on different servers with somewhat different 
> configuration, but two of the mysteriously fail when executed via cron, 
> but not when I re-do them on the command-line (exactly as the cron job 
> is defined) or when I choose to run the job from Webmin.
> 
> The first one runs a shell script that contains:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> cd /usr/local/share/redmine
> /usr/local/bin/bundle exec rake redmine:send_reminders days=14 
> RAILS_ENV="production"
> 
> This one results in a message like this (sent via e-mail to me):
> 
> [31mbundler: command not found: rake
> Install missing gem executables with `bundle install`
> 
> If I either run the shell script from the command-line, or manually 
> enter the commands contained therein, or execute the shell script from 
> Webmin, there are no error messages.
> 
> 
> The second one looks like this when defined in cron:
> 
> cd /usr/share/redmine-3.3.0; /usr/local/bin/bundle exec rake 
> redmine:send_reminders days=14 RAILS_ENV="production"
> 
> It generates an error that looks like this:
> 
> bundler: command not found: rake
> Install missing gem executables with `bundle install`
> 
> 
> But once again, if I either copy and paste all of that, it runs without 
> a hitch. If I do the commands separately on the command-line, it works. 
> If I run the job from Webmin, it works.

Sounds like a PATH problem. At the top of the script, try adding
a line like :

PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin

(assuming that the rake command is in /usr/local/bin)


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