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From: Stefan Schleifer
Subject: Add info: Povray crashes with segfault when started via cronjob
Date: 24 Mar 2003 16:35:56
Message: <3e7f7a3c$1@news.povray.org>
Sorry, the following information could be missing at my first posting...:

The system is a linux-system, uname -a: Linux gonro 2.4.19-4GB #1 Fri Sep 13
13:14:56 UTC 2002 i686 unknown

cat /proc/meminfo shows
MemTotal:       772496 kB
MemFree:         87884 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:        202636 kB
Cached:         241056 kB
SwapCached:      12036 kB
Active:         314096 kB
Inactive:       184196 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       772496 kB
LowFree:         87884 kB
SwapTotal:     1089056 kB
SwapFree:      1073140 kB
BigFree:             0 kB


Regards,
Stefan


Original mail was:
Hello,

i've got the following problem:

I've set up a few shell-scripts which prepair some .pov-Files regularly and
everything works fine when executing them on bash directly. When i put the
main-shell script everything (creating pov-files, moving something around
...) works perfectly but povray drops out with

./mdf2navi.sh: line 41: 23667 Segmentation fault
     /usr/local/bin/povray -GW -GS -GR -GD -GF 1,1,5.pov

Any hints?

Regards,
Stefan


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From: Wolfgang Wieser
Subject: Re: Add info: Povray crashes with segfault when started via cronjob
Date: 25 Mar 2003 18:08:57
Message: <3e80e188@news.povray.org>
Stefan Schleifer wrote:

> I've set up a few shell-scripts which prepair some .pov-Files regularly
> and everything works fine when executing them on bash directly. When i put
> the main-shell script everything (creating pov-files, moving something
> around ...) works perfectly but povray drops out with
> 
> ./mdf2navi.sh: line 41: 23667 Segmentation fault
>      /usr/local/bin/povray -GW -GS -GR -GD -GF 1,1,5.pov
>
Running such a job as root is not a very good idea anyways. 

Try using su(1) and pass it the shell script 
  su - stefan -c "~/mdf2navi.sh"
(And do not forget the single "-" after su.)

See if that helps. 

Wolfgang


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Add info: Povray crashes with segfault when started via cronjob
Date: 26 Mar 2003 04:44:37
Message: <3e817685@news.povray.org>
Wolfgang Wieser <wwi### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Running such a job as root is not a very good idea anyways. 

  Hmm. Exactly which part of his message says that he is running it as root?

-- 
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From: Wolfgang Wieser
Subject: Re: Add info: Povray crashes with segfault when started via cronjob
Date: 28 Mar 2003 13:13:00
Message: <3e8490ab@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Wolfgang Wieser <wwi### [at] gmxde> wrote:
>> Running such a job as root is not a very good idea anyways.
> 
>   Hmm. Exactly which part of his message says that he is running it as
>   root?
> 
Okay, right. It could also be user cron job. 
(Probably I should not post after midnigt...)

However, the su - trick could work anyways because it gives 
a login shell with all the nice env vars. 

Wolfgang


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