[Bro] Errors with broctl cron

[Daniel Thayer]

On 03/10/2014 10:39 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Justin Azoff <JAzoff at albany.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 03:16:09PM +0000, C. L. Martinez wrote:
>>
>>> Here it is:
>>>
>>> root at testbro:~ # /nsm/bro/share/broctl/scripts/local-interfaces
>>> 10.196.0.103
>>> fe80::5054:ff:fe91:3813
>>> 172.17.22.1
>>> fe80::5054:ff:fec4:d17f
>>> 172.17.23.1
>>> fe80::5054:ff:fe1a:3c94
>>> 172.17.24.1
>>> fe80::5054:ff:fe69:9e59
>>> ::1
>>> fe80::1
>>> 127.0.0.1
>>>
>>> Nothing strange in my opinion ... In ode.cfg I use IP 172.17.24.1 to
>>> connect to other workers ...
>>
>> Yep, that's what it is supposed to do..  bro tries to fix the path in
>> that script:
>>
>>      export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin
>>
>> so ifconfig can be found, but I wonder if it is not finding sed on your
>> system.  Can you double check what your PATH is in the shell vs. what
>> it is for cron jobs?
>>
>> --
>
>
> PATH in cron:
>
> PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
>
> crontab entry is:
>
> 59      *       *       *       *       root    /nsm/bro/bin/broctl cron
>
> In my shell:
>
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/root/bin:/nsm/bro/bin
>
> sed: /usr/bin/sed /usr/share/man/man1/sed.1.gz /usr/src/usr.bin/sed
> ifconfig: /sbin/ifconfig /usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
> /usr/src/sbin/ifconfig
>
>
> Uhmmm... I don't see where is the problem ...


I think the problem is that "bash" (probably located in /usr/local/bin)
is not found when broctl runs in a cron job.  Probably the easiest fix
is to create a symlink to bash in either /bin or /usr/bin.

You might also need to make a symlink to python (broctl
requires both bash and python).