Command line question involving webmin cron job;
I have been experimenting a bit and have tried this command line for
upgrading my system;
apt-get -y update; apt-get -y upgrade
It works fine if issued from a root terminal. However as a command line
issued as 'root' from webmin it fails with this error;
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Ign file: apt-build Release.gpg
Ign file: apt-build/main Translation-en_US
Get:1 file: apt-build Release [89B]
Ign file: apt-build/main Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org lenny Release.gpg
Ign http://http.us.debian.org lenny/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://http.us.debian.org lenny/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://http.us.debian.org lenny/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://http.us.debian.org lenny Release
Get:2 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg [1032B]
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release [40.8kB]
Ign http://http.us.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://http.us.debian.org lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://http.us.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://http.us.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org lenny/main Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://http.us.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Get:4 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Packages [124kB]
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Packages
Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org lenny Release.gpg
Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org lenny/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org lenny/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org lenny/non-free Translation-en_US
Get:5 http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile Release.gpg [189B]
Get:6 http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny Release.gpg [197B]
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org lenny Release
Get:7 http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny Release [11.5kB]
Get:8 http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile Release [40.7kB]
Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org lenny/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org lenny/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org lenny/main Packages
Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org lenny/contrib Packages
Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org lenny/non-free Packages
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://www.backports.org lenny-backports Release.gpg
Ign http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://www.backports.org lenny-backports Release
Ign http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Packages/DiffIndex
Get:9 http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Packages [7084B]
Ign http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages
Hit http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/contrib Packages
Hit http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/non-free Packages
Fetched 225kB in 3s (61.3kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages will be upgraded:
apache2 apache2-doc apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin:
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3267kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
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)
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Any ideas why?
Thanks!
--
John Foster
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