Faq-O-Matic Faq-O-Matic : Administrators' Guide : Suggestions : problem with cron job
	I recently installed FAQ-o-matic on an intranet specifically for the engineering staff at my company. The server I am on is a Sun. When the first cron job ran, I received an error saying that /usr/local/bin/diff was missing. On the Sun system, diff is at /bin/diff. So my first "fix" was to put a symbolic link from /usr/local/bin/diff to /bin/diff. I then received an error that -a was an illegal option. I looked at the man pages on diff for LINUX and SUN. Yes, -a was not legal under Sun but was legal under LINUX. My second "fix" was to put a two line shell script at /usr/local/bin/diff that had the lines #! /bin/sh, and /bin/diff -n $2 $3. (I had noted that -n was also passed). This appears to work, but I am not sure that it works. A real fix (rather than my "cluges") would be that a future release addressed this issue. John
	[Append to This Answer]

Previous:	(missing or broken file)
Next:	Suggestion for Jon

This document is: http://www.jonh.net/cgi-bin/faqomatic/fom?file=1477

[Search] [Appearance] This is a Faq-O-Matic 2.718d.

Hosted by and jonh.net.