I asked: > This is Solaris 10 and I have a sneaky feeling that may be the > problem. > > I formerly worked with commercial Tripwire at a previous installation > and I am working on setting up the OpenSource Tripwire with my current > company. I have customized the policy file as I want. When I run it > from the command line, this works just as I want it to. However, when > I run it from cron it is summarily killed. > > Your "cron" job on sandbox > /opt/local/tripwire/sbin/tripwire --check --email-report > /dev/null > 2>&1 > > produced the following output: > > Killed > > I expect it has to do with the difference between environments in cron > and in an interactive shell. All binaries and scripts in the policy > and the config are fully pathed, so it is not a path issue. I can run > it from the command line in /bin/sh, so it is not a shell issue. I am > left wondering if it is a resource issue, except that that was never > an issue with commercial TFS on Solaris 10 servers. can anyone > suggest what else to try? The solution: an ldd of the tripwire binary showed that libraries in both /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib were being referenced. So I changed the cron entry to explicitly set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH: 03 04 * * * LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; /opt/local/tripwire/sbin/tripwire --check --email- report > /dev/null 2>&1 All is well. Thanks for all of the suggestions. I had forgotten to include in my initial question that I had already redirected to a file rather than to /dev/null and learned nothing. Thanks to cmorris@cs.odu.edu ric@Opus1.COM luc@suryo.com maciej.blizinski@gmail.com john.stoffel@taec.toshiba.com mid.xinef@gmail.com ddunham@taos.com alanpae@ilkda.com Andrew.Henle@shomo.com Christopher L. Barnard cbarnar1@earthlink.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- When I was a boy, I was told that anyone could be president. Now I am beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Oct 15 19:52:44 2008
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