[Mailman-Users] Errors with fcron jobs

[Todd Zullinger]

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Hugo Villeneuve wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:15:46 -0800
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
>> fcron by default runs commands using the user's login shell from
>> /etc/passwd. Thus you have to either specify a valid shell in
>> /etc/passwd or override it by assigning to SHELL in the crontab.
>
> In the fcron configuration file, I have already this line for the shell:
>      shell = /bin/sh

I'm not an fcron user, but I doubt that shell is the same as SHELL.
Try setting SHELL = /bin/sh in your crontab and see if that works
better.

This is what the fcrontab(5) manpage says:

    When fcron executes a command, it always sets USER, HOME, and
    SHELL as defined in /etc/passwd for the owner of the fcrontab from
    which the command is extracted. HOME and SHELL may be overridden
    by settings in the fcrontab, but USER may not.  Every other
    environment assignments defined in the user fcrontab are then
    made, and the command is executed.

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