Bug 231809

Summary:	ftp/pure-ftpd can't restart via cron
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	rainer
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	jamie.maher, rainer, w.schwarzenfeld
Priority:	---	Flags:	bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (sunpoet)
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	amd64
OS:	Any

Description rainer 2018-09-29 22:13:19 UTC

Hi,

due to log-rotation, my pure-ftpd is killed every day.

I tried to setup a cron-job that restarts it, but I get this as output:

/etc/rc.subr: kenv: not found
pureftpd not running?
Starting pureftpd.
eval: limits: not found
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/pure-ftpd: logger: not found
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/pure-ftpd: WARNING: failed to start pureftpd


Is that expected behavior?

Comment 1 rainer 2018-09-29 22:17:22 UTC

If I create a shell-script

#!/bin/sh
PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/pure-ftpd restart

then it works.

Comment 2 Walter Schwarzenfeld freebsd_triage

2019-08-08 08:38:14 UTC

ping!

Comment 3 jamie.maher 2020-03-02 21:16:51 UTC

Hi Rainer,

 There was a change in 2016 to /etc/rc.subr that checks a loader env variable using the 'kenv' command.

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/etc/rc.subr?r1=309350&r2=309349&pathrev=309350

I was also getting the same message when I was trying to restart a service from the crontab:
/etc/rc.subr: kenv: not found

Check where kenv is located:

# which kenv
/bin/kenv


Then check the PATH for your crontab and ensure it contains "/bin"

Eg. in my case I added /bin to the front of the path:

from:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

to:
PATH=/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin


If you notice your shell-script has /bin in the path, which might be why it worked correctly.


Cheers