Dear all,
I am developing a web harvesting server which requires regularly
website parsing. Since I use Mac 10.8 as my development environment, I
try to use Launchd to routinely wake up my parser. My parser was a bash
script which has only two lines:
1. cd $HOME/ProjectFolder
2. bundle exec rake dailyTask:dataParse
When directly execute the script under Terminal, there is no
problem. However, when this script is called by Launchctl, it produces
errors, which looks like:
I look around for segmentation fault problem. Most posts suggests
RVM or rbenv to swap Ruby version. None of the posts looks relevant to
me since I can directly execute under terminal environment.
The relevant part of my plist file is as following:
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/bin/bash</string>
<string>crontab-test.sh</string>
</array>
Hope someone can give me the right direction to continue. Many
thanks!
Dear all,
I am developing a web harvesting server which requires regularly
website parsing. Since I use Mac 10.8 as my development environment, I
try to use Launchd to routinely wake up my parser. My parser was a bash
script which has only two lines:
1. cd $HOME/ProjectFolder
Just a thought, is $HOME valid when this is run?
Colin
Thanks for reply. I checked the path and it is ok. I test directly with
no variable and the result is identical.
I did some other experiments. In the batch script, I can successfully
run
bundle exec rake --version or bundle exec rake -h
However, when I run bundle exec rake -T, it would produce exact
segmentation error as follows:
crontab-test.sh: line 6: 29245 Abort trap: 6
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p195/bin/bundle exec rake -T >>
/tmp/cron-test.out
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p195/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/mysql2-0.3.13/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle:
[BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [universal-darwin12.0]
I don't understand when bundle exec rake would encounter errors for
mysql2 bundle, especially when it reports ruby 1.8.7 while I am sure I
use 2.0.0p195.
Dear all,
I am developing a web harvesting server which requires regularly
website parsing. Since I use Mac 10.8 as my development environment, I
try to use Launchd to routinely wake up my parser. My parser was a bash
script which has only two lines:
1. cd $HOME/ProjectFolder
Just a thought, is $HOME valid when this is run?
Colin
Thanks for reply. I checked the path and it is ok. I test directly with
no variable and the result is identical.
I did some other experiments. In the batch script, I can successfully
run
bundle exec rake --version or bundle exec rake -h
However, when I run bundle exec rake -T, it would produce exact
segmentation error as follows:
crontab-test.sh: line 6: 29245 Abort trap: 6
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p195/bin/bundle exec rake -T >>
/tmp/cron-test.out
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.0.0-p195/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/mysql2-0.3.13/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle:
[BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [universal-darwin12.0]
I don't understand why bundle exec rake would encounter errors for
mysql2 bundle, especially when it reports ruby 1.8.7 while I am sure I
use 2.0.0p195. Does it imply when launchd exec the bash script, it has
its own environment which uses ruby 1.8.7?
Using launchd is much like using cron on linux: there is no (or barely any) predefined environment like you have in Terminal. Thus you have to provide all the information that will be needed to make sure your script runs correctly. This is includes running whatever is needed to set the right version and source of ruby for that launcher.
Since OS/X ships with 1.8.7 as the system ruby, that is the one used by launchd. If you require a different version (and you do if you want to use any gems you've installed for that different version), you have to wrap your ruby script in something that will initialize the environment. I haven't tried this, but it might just be enough to add —init-file /Users/youruser/.bash_profile to the argument list above, depending on how you have things configured.
