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mutt not working in cron - May 2, '06, 1:05:46 PM

guenther@wsu.edu

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When I use mutt in a bash script, it works fine. But when I run the same script out of cron it gets an error:

/usr/local/bin/mutt: error in loading shared libraries
libncurses.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've updated with pkg_update, and like I said it runs outside of cron but not inside of cron. Here is the path I've set inside of the bash script which is used when run through cron:

PATH=/dev/fs/C/SFU/usr/local/bin:/dev/fs/C/SFU/bin:/dev/fs/C/SFU\opt\gcc.3.3\bin
:/dev/fs/C/SFU/usr/contrib/bin:/dev/fs/C/SFU/usr/X11R6/bin:/dev/fs/C/SFU/usr/loc
al/bin:/dev/fs/C/SFU/usr/contrib/win32/bin:/dev/fs/C/WINDOWS/system32:/dev/fs/C/
SFU/common:/dev/fs/C/SFU/usr/games:/dev/fs/C/usr/local/lib

which shows this way when I do "printenv" when running the
script:

printenv|grep "^PATH="

PATH=C:\SFU\usr\local\bin;C:\SFU\bin;C:\SFUoptgcc.3.3bin;C:\SFU\usr\contrib\bin;
C:\SFU\usr\X11R6\bin;C:\SFU\usr\local\bin;C:\SFU\usr\contrib\win32\bin;C:\WINDOW
S\system32;C:\SFU\common;C:\SFU\usr\games;C:\usr\local\lib

mutt and curses versions:

bash-3.00$ pkg_info |grep mutt
mutt-1.4.2.1-bin Version 1.4.2.1 of mutt for Interix.

bash-3.00$ pkg_info |grep libncurs
libncurses-5.4-bin Version 5.4 of libncurses for Interix 3.5

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Dean Guenther
Washington State University

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RE: mutt not working in cron - May 2, '06, 1:32:02 PM

Rodney

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The environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set with the startup of the shells
to include "/usr/local/lib". cron doesn't start with this.
That's where the message "error in loading shared libraries" comes in.
It means that a shared library cannot be found for a runtime load.

In your crontab add the env var LD_LIBRARY_PATH with "/usr/local/lib".
X-ref the crontab(5) man page ("man 5 crontab").

(in reply to guenther@wsu.edu)