Unable to use zmcontrol via CronTAB

[leog21]

Hi,

I'm running into a really strange problem and I'm out of ideas. The good thing is I've been able to reproduce this problem both in my production and VM environments.

I'm trying to use a bash script to stop, and start zimbra via the crontab.
But what happens is, when zimbra starts, some of the services fail to load. I have to manually retry zmcontrol stop/start several times to everything to load fine again.

IF I run the same script manually, everything works just fine. Any help would be appreciated.

Here is my simple script being run as the zimbra user:

/opt/zimbra/bin/zmcontrol stop > /opt/scripts/zmcontrol_stop.out
#Wait 45 sec for all services to properly shut down
sleep 45
/opt/zimbra/bin/zmcontrol start > /opt/scripts/zmcontrol_start.out

Output of zmcontrol_stop.out

[zimbra@gp-sf1-xen01-centos scripts]$ tail -f zmcontrol_stop.out
        Stopping snmp...Done.
        Stopping cbpolicyd...Done.
        Stopping archiving...Done.
        Stopping antivirus...Done.
        Stopping antispam...Done.
        Stopping imapproxy...Done.
        Stopping memcached...Done.
        Stopping mailbox...Done.
        Stopping logger...Done.
        Stopping ldap...Done.

Output of zmcontrol_start.out

[zimbra@gp-sf1-xen01-centos scripts]$ tail -f zmcontrol_start.out
Host mail.leotest.com
        Starting ldap...Done.
        Starting zmconfigd...Done.
        Starting logger...Failed.
Starting logswatch...failed.


        Starting mailbox...Done.
        Starting antispam...Done.
        Starting antivirus...Done.
        Starting snmp...Done.
        Starting spell...Done.
        Starting mta...Done.
        Starting stats...Done.

Again, if I run this script manually as the zimbra user, everything works perfectly fine.


Both VM and production environments are running zimbra 7.1.3 under CentOS in a XEN virtual environment

[splante]

I'm not sure if this is the problem here, but often when a command runs fine on the command line but fails in cron, it's because cron doesn't have the same environment. Your .profile, .bash_profile, and .bashrc do not get evaluated by the cron shell. You might try making a shell script that either reads those files or duplicates the setting of relevant environment variables and then calls the zmcontrol commands. I see the .bashrc on my system sets a bunch of variables, like ZIMBRA_HOME, JAVA_HOME, PERLLIB, JYTHONPATH, etc.

[ccelis5215]

Try sudoers and complete routes to zimbra commands.

Regards.