Subj : getting better at this!
To   : Alpha
From : Al
Date : Fri Jan 29 2021 15:20:51

  Re: getting better at this!
  By: Alpha to all on Thu Jan 28 2021 03:12 pm

 Al> Turns out I also had a binkd problem -- when running via cron, I needed 
 Al> full paths. Once I echo'd to logs I found why I wasn't getting mail:

One thing to keep in mind when starting/running anything with cron is that the environment is *VERY* minimal. There is no path in the environment so you always have to use a full path to the executibles you want to run.

In my cron script that starts binkd and the BBS it sets the environment from /etc/profile.

.. /etc/profile

If you are using a script to start things from cron you can also set needed environments in it, but crons environment is almost bare.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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