On 9/7/04 5:51 PM, "Joe R. Jah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Clint Davis wrote:
> 
>> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:25:40 -0500
>> From: Clint Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: [htdig] Error: Unable to open/create...
>> 
>> Still having some problems with the crontab...
>> 
>> 
>> When I execute the following command as root, everything works great.
>> $ sh /Library/Tenon/Htdig/bin/rundig-realtree.sh
>> 
>> When the system crontab executes the same command, I get errors:
>> htdig: Unable to open/create document database
>> '/Library/Tenon/Htdig/db/www.realtree.com/db.docdb.work'
>> 
>> htmerge: Unable to create temporary word file
>> '/Library/Tenon/Htdig/db/www.realtree.com/db.wordlist.work.new'
>> 
>> Here's the crontab:
>> 0      2       *       *       *       root    sh
>> /Library/Tenon/Htdig/bin/rundig-realtree.sh
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Here are the contents of the shell script:
>> #! /bin/sh
> 
> Add this line to your script:
> 
> unlimit;
> 
> Depending on your platform, you may have to use ulimit instead.  Search
> the Ardhives for the keyword unlimit for more information.  You can also
> google unlimit+htdig.


As suggested on Experts-Exchange, I changed the crontab command to the
following, and everything is working now.

su root -c "/Library/Tenon/Htdig/bin/rundig-realtree.sh"




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