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Re: [ldm-users] Minor bug in LDM 6.8.0: can't find ntpdate

Gilbert,
I'm getting this message emailed to me from my root account on every machine I have LDM 6.8.0 on. Running the ldmadmin newlog command manually yields no issues.
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat,  1 Aug 2009 01:04:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: Cron Daemon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Cron <ldm@XXXXXXXX> /home/ldm/bin/ldmadmin newlog


Couldn't invoke the ntpdate(1) utility, "ntpdate": No such file
or directory.  Set the value of the variable "$ntpdate" in the
configuration-file, /home/ldm/etc/ldmadmin-pl.conf, to the pathname of
the ntpdate(1) utility.

You should either fix the problem (recommended) or disable time-checking
by setting the variable "$check_time" to 0 in the configuration-file,
/home/ldm/etc/ldmadmin-pl.conf, (not recommended).
The ldmadmin(1) script can't find the ntpdate(1) utility --- probably because "/usr/sbin" isn't in the PATH environment variable when ldmadmin(1) is run by cron(8). I suspect that the LDM user sets the PATH environment variable in their ".bash_profile" or ".login" profile-file rather than in their ".bashrc" or ".cshrc" profile-file, which is why it works manually but not when executed by cron(8). Move the setting of PATH and things should work.
Alternatively, set the variable $ntpdate in the ldmadmin(1) configuration-file (etc/ldmadmin-pl.conf) to the absolute pathname of the utility. 


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Regards,
Steve Emmerson
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