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pnix
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 Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:08 am Post subject: can not unzip file |
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last year I built email box(qmail) by follow the howto in this site and work fine until last week. I got email every hour from cron said
From: Cron Daemon [mailto:root@email.xxx.com]
Sent: 11 àÁÉÒ¹ 2548 16:15
To: root@email.xxx.com
Subject: Cron <root@email> test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons &&
/usr/sbin/run-crons
replace SIGN.DEF? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: NULL
(assuming [N]one)
Error trying to unzip: fp-def.zip.
Make sure unzip is installed and it's location is within your PATH variable
Fatal error. Exiting...
I know that it come from 'virus update' script in '/opt/f-prot/check-updates.pl' and look like it can not unzip the fp-def.zip file. I'm sure unzip is in my path.
Any suggest please. |
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BlackEdder
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:11 am Post subject: |
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You could try editting check-update.pl to include the whole path to unzip instead of just unzip. This might be needed, because the PATH variable does not get set when you call something from cron.
| Code: | edwin@zaphod:~/documents/rhul/article$ whereis unzip
unzip: /usr/bin/unzip /usr/X11R6/bin/unzip /usr/bin/X11/unzip /usr/man/man1/unzip.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/unzip.1.gz |
Seems like /usr/bin/unzip is your best bet |
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mens
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| Viruses are often disguised as zip-file, while they aren't zip files at all. This may be the reason for this error. You could manually try to unzip the file to verify this. |
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tomvollerthun
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:14 am Post subject: Re: can not unzip file |
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| pnix wrote: | | I'm sure unzip is in my path. |
So you just have to convince your computer of that ;)
I think I once read that cronjobs use their own (restricted) path. You should try to find out how to change that path to include "unzip".
Or you can hack the script that uses unzip (you wrote it was '/opt/f-prot/check-updates.pl') to use the complete path to unzip and not just the command name.
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mens
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| Since you have that replace message, I think it did find unzip but there's a problem with that zip file. The error message is just a bit confusing. |
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pnix
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:31 am Post subject: |
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thanks for fast reply but
crontab -e give me
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
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0 * * * * /etc/cron.hourly/virus-update.cron
and this is virus-update.cron
#!/bin/bash
/opt/f-prot/check-updates.pl -cron -quiet
so i think unzip already in the path(/usr/bin/unzip) anyway I will try specify full path and see what happen. |
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pnix
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:09 am Post subject: |
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| mens wrote: | | Since you have that replace message, I think it did find unzip but there's a problem with that zip file. The error message is just a bit confusing. |
I agree with you. I still got email what should I do, I guess that zip file is a virus definition file and it download from internet . |
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pht3k
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| Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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hi,
i have a fresh gentoo install with the same problem ... and when i manually enter /opt/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl on the terminal i have a 'nothing to be done' message. So what i'll do for now is remove this cron job and dop it manually for a while and see what happens. keep me informed if you find anything else interesting. thanks.
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pht3k
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| Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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hi,
from the qmail install thread i can see that it seems an error in the fetching of the zip file from the f-prot website. but those people reported an intermittent error message (which is my case). u said your error message was every hour. is it really every hour or only from time to time? because if it'S not every hour i think u should not care about this error.
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