Problems with apt-get upgrade -y and crontab
From the cron daemon email I get wrt to apt-get (which I run from root's
crontab):
Subject: Cron <root@joseph-a-nagy-jr> /usr/bin/apt-get upgrade -y
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages have been kept back
gaim libggz1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnutls7 php4
The following packages will be upgraded
debconf debconf-i18n debconf-utils gettext gettext-base
linux-kernel-headers python python2.3 python2.3-tk xml-core
10 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 3161kB/6162kB of archives.
After unpacking 897kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main debconf-i18n 1.4.3 [51.2kB]
Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main debconf 1.4.3 [88.1kB]
Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main gettext-base 0.13.1-1 [88.5kB]
Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main linux-kernel-headers
2.5.999-test7-bk-13 [1376kB]
Get:5 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main debconf-utils 1.4.3 [28.6kB]
Get:6 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main gettext 0.13.1-1 [1517kB]
Get:7 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main xml-core 0.04 [10.7kB]
Fetched 3161kB in 13s (226kB/s)
dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Of course I've checke the $PATH and tab-completed the commands in
question. The reason I'm crontabbing the upgrade is so that it happens
without having to wait for me (I crontab apt-get update as well). This
way my box is automagically kept up-to-date.
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error running postrotate script error running postrotate script error
running postrotate script run-parts:
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
Should that be anything to worry about?
--
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Student at Motlow State Community College
Political Activist Extrodinaire
The only fallacy is the inaction on our part to stave off the worst of
horrors, the stripping of personal freedom.
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