You can always redefine your PATH variable in your
script. For example, in the cron expect script I run, I
have
set env(PATH) /mypath
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Garrett McGrath [mailto:gmcgrath@Princeton.EDU]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:30 PM
>To: 'John Rouillard'; users@subversion.tigris.org
>Subject: RE: svn and cron
>
>I believe I have found the problem in my particular instance.
>On centos (and quiet probobly more generally) cron uses a
>restricted path for the commands it issues. My version of svn
>wasn't found in that path and a core distribution version was
>being used instead. Defining the full path of the svn binary
>and the svn working copy 'appears' to have fixed the problem
>it'll take another day or so to completely test it however.
>-Garrett
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Rouillard [mailto:rouilj@renesys.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:02 PM
>To: Mikko Ruohola
>Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
>Subject: Re: svn and cron
>
>On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:01:53PM +0200, Mikko Ruohola wrote:
>> Vincent Lefevre kirjoitti:
>> >On 2006-12-11 20:50:49 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> >
>> >>Curious. What do you need expect for in this scenario? svn
>is not an
>> >>interactive program. The only thing I think it can prompt
>for is the
>> >>username and password, and you can provide that with the
>--username
>> >>and --password options without resorting to something like expect.
>> >>
>> >
>> >The --password option may be a security hole, e.g. if there are
>> >several users on the machine.
>> --password `cat /var/etc/thefilewiththepassword` And file
>can have all
>> the fancy permissions to prevent people from seeing it. or does it
>> show on process list apps like top or ps?
>
>You bet it does.
>
>> atleast ncftp hides some command line parameters from process list.
>
>That is usually done by rewriting argv, so it introduces a
>race condition where the password is visible in plaintext
>format. Also not all systems allow you to rewrite argv and
>have the kernel pick up the changed version.
>
>--
> -- rouilj
>
>John Rouillard
>System Administrator
>Renesys Corporation
>603-643-9300 x 111
>
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