Re: how bash run by crontab is different from login bash shell?

[Peng Yu]

I find that this should be the fix. /usr/sbin/cron should be put there
instead of crontab.

https://osxdaily.com/2020/04/27/fix-cron-permissions-macos-full-disk-access/

On 9/10/20, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
> The things that might serve as a solution is "System Preferences >
> Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access > "add your app such
> as svnX". But I tried to set crontab and bash in Full Disk Access. It
> doesn't solve the problem. So that is not the solution.
>
> Does anybody who has Mac OS X 15.16 encounter the same problem? I can
> not understand why bash can run correct but `enable` can not run.
>
> On 9/10/20, Jesse Hathaway <jesse@mbuki-mvuki.org> wrote:
>> I don't run Mac OS, but this part of your error message:
>>
>> "file system sandbox blocked open() of
>> '/Users/xxx/Downloads/bash-5.0/examples/loadables/realpath'"
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44627957/mac-os-file-system-sandbox-blocked-open
>>
>> seems to indicate that Mac OS is purposely blocking access for the
>> cronjob,
>> more info on this stackoverflow post:
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44627957/mac-os-file-system-sandbox-blocked-open
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 8:05 PM Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have the following line in crontab.
>>>
>>> * * * * * LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/local/bin/bash -c 'builtin enable -f
>>> /Users/xxx/Downloads/bash-5.0/examples/loadables/realpath realpath'
>>> >/tmp/crontab_stdout_realpath.log 2>/tmp/crontab_stderr_realpath.log
>>>
>>> But it prints the following error.
>>>
>>> $ cat /tmp/crontab_stderr_realpath.log
>>> /usr/local/bin/bash: line 0: enable: cannot open shared object
>>> /Users/xxx/Downloads/bash-5.0/examples/loadables/realpath:
>>> dlopen(/Users/xxx/Downloads/bash-5.0/examples/loadables/realpath, 1):
>>> no suitable image found.  Did find:
>>>         file system sandbox blocked open() of
>>> '/Users/xxx/Downloads/bash-5.0/examples/loadables/realpath'
>>>
>>> But the following command run in the login shell works fine. Does
>>> anybody know what is the difference between bash run by crontab and
>>> the login shell? How the error is caused? The OS is Mac OS Catalina
>>> 10.15.6. Thanks.
>>>
>>> $ builtin enable -f
>>> /Users/xxx/Downloads/bash-5.0/examples/loadables/realpath realpath
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Peng
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Peng
>


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Regards,
Peng