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Comment on Technical help needed for a script issue by Tomas Jensen

Tomas Jensen — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:28:24 +0000

Even better:
PATH=$PATH:”/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin”
This would preserve the old $PATH if it is already set.

/Tomas

Comment on End of the email post-list, told to get a job by Jón Frímann

Jón Frímann — Thu, 30 May 2013 01:06:35 +0000

The thing actually is, it is a full time job to have this blog. Even a bit more then that.

I plan on making my writing pay the bills in the end, but I guess it won’t be trough blogging. Rather self e-book publishing and such things.

Here is a good list of the most wealthy ones. The #1 on this published 14 titles in the year 2011.

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeji45lmkd/james-patterson-94-million-2/

http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/19/patterson-meyer-king-business-media-highest-paid-authors.html

It is clear that I can make money out of writing. I just have to do it properly and in good time.

Comment on End of the email post-list, told to get a job by jawnbc

jawnbc — Thu, 30 May 2013 00:56:30 +0000

I didn’t make that donation or offer that comment. But I agree with it–even if the tone of it wasn’t warm or kind.

I suspect many of the folks who follow this site are similar to you: people for whom a great passion is not a livelihood–in fact it incurs expenses. Which means financing things through other paid work. I am a writer, ostensibly, but the sort of writing I love to do will not pay my expenses. So I have other paid work.

Comment on Earthquake swarm on Reykjanes Ridge on 19th of May, increased volcano monitoring in Iceland and more by fireman

fireman — Mon, 27 May 2013 03:41:49 +0000

Jon,

Off topic but maybe interesting; you speculated that we might see more quakes in NZ this year…

http://info.geonet.org.nz/display/quake/2013/05/27/M7+slow+release+earthquake+under+Wellington

Mike

Comment on Technical help needed for a script issue by Jón Frímann

Jón Frímann — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:25 +0000

That did solve this issue for me. Now the script is working as it suppose to do.

Thanks for the help.

Comment on Technical help needed for a script issue by Jón Frímann

Jón Frímann — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:41:23 +0000

I am using webmin to run the script. I run it like this,

/usr/local/bin/mrtg /usr/local/etc/mrtg/eq.imo.cfg

Webmin is running this as root (the command is run by the user root).

When I run the old script in bash shell, I get this.

./eq.imo.sh.old
9
9

Correct data is passed on to the shell, but this data is not passed to mrtg to read it properly when it is running in cron (I use webmin to set-up cron jobs). I do not know what the issue is, this script was working perfectly in Gentoo Linux. It does not work in FreeBSD for some reason.

I am not sure what is going on here with this.

Comment on Technical help needed for a script issue by Günter Frenz

Günter Frenz — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:22:42 +0000

Another idea: maybe the mrtg user has no PATH-variable set. A solution would be to set it in your script before using any commands:

PATH=”/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin”

Comment on Technical help needed for a script issue by Günter Frenz

Günter Frenz — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:08:08 +0000

eq.imo.sh has execute permission for all users, so that is not the problem.

Can you describe a bit more precise what you did when you tried to run the script as the mrtg user? Did you try su as root or as normal user?

Günter

Comment on Technical help needed for a script issue by Jón Frímann

Jón Frímann — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:33:08 +0000

Here are the permissions on the files in question. I run the command as root, since trying to run it as normal user doesn’t seem to work properly. That might just be lack of know-how on my part.

ls -l eq.*
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 670 May 14 03:30 eq.emsc.cfg
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 0 May 14 03:30 eq.emsc.ok
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 279 May 14 03:30 eq.emsc.sh
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 455 May 14 03:30 eq.es.auto.sh
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 638 May 18 19:58 eq.es.cfg
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 0 May 18 19:59 eq.es.ok
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 454 May 14 03:31 eq.es.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 376 May 18 19:57 eq.es.sh
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 442 May 14 04:40 eq.es.sh.old
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 720 May 18 19:48 eq.imo.cfg
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 0 May 22 18:26 eq.imo.ok
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 632 May 14 03:30 eq.imo.rev.cfg
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 0 May 14 03:30 eq.imo.rev.ok
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 338 May 14 03:30 eq.imo.rev.sh
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 632 May 14 03:30 eq.imo.rev.test.cfg
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 338 May 14 03:30 eq.imo.rev.test.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 378 May 20 22:44 eq.imo.sh
-rwxr–r– 1 root wheel 426 May 22 18:21 eq.imo.sh.old

I did try to run this as mrtg user, but it did not work for some reason. That user might be locked by default.

Comment on Technical help needed for a script issue by Günter Frenz

Günter Frenz — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:02:15 +0000

Hi,

if the script works from command line but not from mrtg, this looks like a problem with permissions. mrtg probably runs with a specialized user-account. Has this user-account execute-permission on your script? Changing the owner or the group to the mrtg-account or group and adjusting the permissions of the script would solve the problem in this case.

If this doesn’t help, I need more info on the permissions of the files and services and the data structure mrtg expects from the script.

Günter