Running REBOL as a cron job.

[1/5] from: bga:din:uem at: 7-Aug-2000 14:48

Hello. I'm trying to run a REBOL script as a cron job. I have set the REBOL_HOME variable (in /etc/profile) to point to my REBOL directory, but I'm having problems as the script is supposed to send emails and it always complains that there is no smtp server set (or something like this). What a I missing? -Bruno -- Bruno G. Albuquerque [bga--din--uem--br] BeDevId #15362 Grupo Brasileiro de Usu�rios de BeOS - Presidente http://beos.din.uem.br Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming: Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

[2/5] from: marj:msi at: 7-Aug-2000 11:17

At 02:48 PM 8/7/00 -0300, you wrote:

>Hello. > I'm trying to run a REBOL script as a cron job. I have set the

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>that there is no smtp server set (or something like this). What a I >missing?

You need a line something like: set-net [ [name--domain--com] ###.###.#.## ###.###.##.### ] where you replace name by the "name" of who you want your script to say is mailing - needn't be a real person's email name, domain is your domain name, and the first series of ### should be replaced by the IP address of you smtp server (outgoing mail) and the second series, which may not be needed, by your incoming mail server's IP address. cheers, Marj

>-Bruno >--

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> Never test for an error condition you don't know how to >handle.

-- Marjorie A. Tiefert Principal Scientific Writer & Documentation Website Manager Life Sciences Information Design Molecular Simiulations Inc (http://www.msi.com/)

[3/5] from: bga::din::uem::br at: 7-Aug-2000 16:05

Em Monday, August 07 2000, 15:17:06, [marj--msi--com] ([marj--msi--com]) disse:

>> I'm trying to run a REBOL script as a cron job. I have set the >> REBOL_HOME

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>You need a line something like: >set-net [ [name--domain--com] ###.###.#.## ###.###.##.### ]

Thanks. It worked. Anyway, wasn't REBOl supposed to read the rebol.r and user.r files from the REBOL_HOME dir? -Bruno -- Bruno G. Albuquerque [bga--din--uem--br] BeDevId #15362 Grupo Brasileiro de Usu�rios de BeOS - Presidente http://beos.din.uem.br Bathquake, n.: The violent quake that rattles the entire house when the water faucet is turned on to a certain point. -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"

[4/5] from: marj:msi at: 7-Aug-2000 12:21

At 04:05 PM 8/7/00 -0300, you wrote:

>Em Monday, August 07 2000, 15:17:06, [marj--msi--com] ([marj--msi--com]) disse: > >You need a line something like:

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>the >REBOL_HOME dir?

Except that, when a Rebol script runs as a cron job, the "user" is probably root, not you. So it doesn't know to read your user.r file. cheers, Marj -- Marjorie A. Tiefert Principal Scientific Writer & Documentation Website Manager Life Sciences Information Design Molecular Simiulations Inc (http://www.msi.com/)

[5/5] from: bga:din:uem at: 7-Aug-2000 16:29

Em Monday, August 07 2000, 16:21:51, [marj--msi--com] ([marj--msi--com]) disse:

>>Anyway, wasn't REBOl supposed to read the rebol.r and user.r files from >>the REBOL_HOME dir? > >Except that, when a Rebol script runs as a cron job, the "user" is probably >root, not you. So it doesn't know to read your user.r file.

Nah... I am root. :) I think the problem is that when the job is being executed, it doesn't get the REBOL_HOME variable that is set in /etc/profile. It would be cool if REBOL would look for these files in a deafult dir (like $HOME/.rebol) -Bruno -- Bruno G. Albuquerque [bga--din--uem--br] BeDevId #15362 Grupo Brasileiro de Usu�rios de BeOS - Presidente http://beos.din.uem.br Finagle's Creed: Science is true. Don't be misled by facts.

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