RE: glimpse_partitions not found

[Charles Hall <Charles.Hall@sas.com>]

Actually, I spoke too soon. When I restored the wgreindex call to the inside of my Perl script it failed again.

I will have to cron it separately again and see what's going on...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Vogler [mailto:cvogler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 5:33 PM
> To: Charles Hall
> Cc: wgusers@webglimpse.net
> Subject: Re: glimpse_partitions not found
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:27:28AM -0400, Charles Hall wrote:
> > I have been having consistent troubles running 'wgreindex' in my
> > nightly cron job on Linux. Then I realized that it AWLAYS worked
> > when I ran it by hand the next day, and it ALWAYS failed via the
> > cron job. After several experiments I found that changing the shell
> > in my cron job to 'bash' made it work!
> 
> > I can only imagine that one of the Glimpse programs makes use of a
> > shell command that the default Bourne shell ('sh') doesn't
> > support. Or that this computer's Bourne shell set-up is just goofy.
> 
> This is really odd. On a Linux system the Bourne shell and the bash
> ARE identical (/bin/sh is just a symlink to /bin/bash), unless you use
> some kind of goofy distribution. ;-)
> 
> Thanks for the report. There may be something else going on that needs
> to be investigated.
> 
> - Christian
>