weekly.local not excecuted

olibois

Hi all,
I am running NetBSD 10.1 on a Raspberry PI and I am unable to have my /etc/weekly.local script executed. I made several tests:

The weekly is executed by cron. I receive the result by mail, but only " Rebuilding locate database" and "Rebuilding man page index". Not the execution of weekly.local.
As my daily.local file works, I copied and renamed it weekly.local but it is not executed neither.
If I launch by hand, weekly.local, it works fine.

I checked the rights of the files between /etc/weekly* and /etc/daily* and I did not see any differences

# ls -l /etc/weekly*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2344 Dec 17  2024 /etc/weekly
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   212 Aug  8 19:00 /etc/weekly.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   255 Sep 10 21:58 /etc/weekly.local
# ls -l /etc/daily*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  7536 Aug  4 22:02 /etc/daily
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   208 Dec 17  2024 /etc/daily.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2170 Aug 25 11:05 /etc/daily.local

I did not change anything to /etc/weekly.
Thank you in advance for the help

rvp

olibois weekly.local is executed (read, actually), but, there's no message printed saying this unless the script, too, produces some output.

olibois

rvp The script produces an output. I made the following dummy weekly.local (based on my daily.local that works) and I saw nothing in the output.

#!/bin/sh -

# Variables
TMPMESSAGE=$(mktemp)
echo "===== CECI EST UN TEST =====" > ${TMPMESSAGE}

echo "[+] Est-ce que le test est reussi ?" >> ${TMPMESSAGE}

echo "===== FIN DU TEST =====" >> ${TMPMESSAGE}

cat ${TMPMESSAGE}
rm -f ${TMPMESSAGE}
exit 0

I probably do something wrong but I can not figure out what.

rvp

olibois Get rid of that final exit 0 -- since the file is sourced, not executed, you're exiting /etc/weekly at that point.

olibois

rvp Thanks a lot ! It works !