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POError 32512 running a system call from Ruby script run from crontab
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copied!<p>I am having a problem getting a Ruby script to work correctly when run from a user's crontab. It works okay when you run it from the terminal as that user. When run from crontab it fails on a system call.</p> <p>Here is the script;</p> <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/ruby require "net/http" require "logger" require "pp" begin Dir.chdir("wca") time1 = Time.new filename = "updated" + "_" + time1.hour.to_s + "_" + time1.min.to_s + "_" + time1.sec.to_s + ".log" log = Logger.new(filename) log.debug "===Checking For New Build" source = Net::HTTP.get('yr-qa-svr2', '/Wave/index.html') myFile = File.new("data/old.html","rb") old = myFile.read myFile.close if old != source then log.debug " Server Version Changed, running tests" status = system("runWatir","webdriver.rb") if status then log.debug " Command run correctly" myFile = File.new("data/old.html","w") myFile.puts source myFile.close else log.debug " Failed to run command" log.debug " Error number " + $?.to_s end else log.debug " No Updates to Server Version" end rescue Exception => e print "Exception occured: " + e + "\n" print e.backtrace end </code></pre> <p>When run from by crontab is produces this log;</p> <pre><code> # Logfile created on Fri Jun 24 02:00:01 +0100 2011 by logger.rb/22285 D, [2011-06-24T02:00:01.333921 #4409] DEBUG -- : ===Checking For New Build D, [2011-06-24T02:00:01.433632 #4409] DEBUG -- : Server Version Changed, running tests D, [2011-06-24T02:00:01.462700 #4409] DEBUG -- : Failed to run command D, [2011-06-24T02:00:01.462919 #4409] DEBUG -- : Error number 32512 </code></pre> <p>The command runWatir is a bash shell script located in the wca directory.</p> <pre><code>#!/bin/bash rm logs/*.log rm logs/*.png export DATE=`date` ruby -W0 $1|tee logs/$1.log export RESULT=`grep assertions logs/$1.log` export TIMED=`grep Finished logs/$1.log` export BUILD=`cat logs/build.log` ruby library/GenEmailMsg.rb "WATIR Results for $DATE" "Attached are the results from the WATIR automated test [$1] run with $BUILD..The results are $RESULT..$TIMED" logs/$1.log </code></pre> <p>What is my rookie mistake?</p>

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