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I feel like I should be able to solve this one, but it started after my |
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last world update so maybe someone else has had a similar problem. |
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We have a ruby script called 'mailshears' on our mail server that cleans |
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up orphaned users and domains every night. The main script, |
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/root/src/mailshears/bin/mailshears |
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includes a class, |
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require 'src/postfixadmin_db' |
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which in turn requires the postgres library from ruby-postgres: |
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require 'postgres' |
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I don't think there's anything fancy going on here. All of the required |
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packages are installed, and the script runs fine when I execute it |
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manually. For example, both of the following work: |
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cd /root/src/mailshears/bin/ |
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./mailshears |
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cd / |
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export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin |
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export HOME=/ |
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/root/src/mailshears/bin/mailshears |
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(That last one mimics my crontab.) The problem is, whenever the nightly |
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cron job runs, the 'postgres' library can't be found. I get mailed this |
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every night: |
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/root/src/mailshears/bin/../src/postfixadmin_db.rb:1:in `require': no |
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such file to load -- postgres (LoadError) |
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from /root/src/mailshears/bin/../src/postfixadmin_db.rb:1 |
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from /etc/cron.daily/01mailshears:35:in `require' |
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from /etc/cron.daily/01mailshears:35 |
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The path /etc/cron.daily/01mailshears is simply a symlink to |
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/root/src/mailshears/bin/mailshears, and of course, if I execute that |
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symlink manually, it runs fine. |
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What's different between my root environment and the one in which cron |
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runs (with respect to ruby and its gems)? Where should I start looking? |
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