WSUS Offline Updater as cronjob

[Buster]

Hi,

I try to run wsusoffline as cronjob and have it set up like this in /etc/crontab

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# wsusoffline.net Windows Updates Offline ISO-Images
# Windows 8 / Server 2012
00 23   * * 2   root    test -x /srv/wsusoffline/sh/DownloadUpdates.sh && /bin/bash /srv/wsusoffline/sh/DownloadUpdates.sh w62-x64 deu /makeiso /dotnet /msse >/dev/null

As you can see I've added /bin/bash to the path to circumvent some TERM requirements and redirect output to /dev/null for silent updates of the iso images. But I'm still getting TERM warnings and overall output which is not expected.

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TERM environment variable not set.
TERM environment variable not set.
TERM environment variable not set.
../client/wsus/wsusscn2_1.cab: WARNING; possible 16088 extra bytes at end of file.
TERM environment variable not set.
TERM environment variable not set.
TERM environment variable not set.
Warning: Creating ISO-9660:1999 (version 2) filesystem.
Warning: ISO-9660 filenames longer than 31 may cause buffer overflows in the OS.
  0.21% done, estimate finish Wed May 22 10:54:42 2013
[...]
 99.94% done, estimate finish Wed May 22 11:03:34 2013
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 73748
Total directory bytes: 178176
Path table size(bytes): 582
Max brk space used 8f000
2351374 extents written (4592 MB)

Is there any way to fix this? I don't want to run the script in a screen session merely to ignore output.

[cookie1980]

You should set the environment var in your profile.
.bashrc:

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export TERM=/bin/bash

Replace bash with your default shell.

[hhullen]

You should set the environment var in your profile.
.bashrc:

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export TERM=/bin/bash

Replace bash with your default shell.

Sorry - that leads to another error message.

I've just added

export TERM=xterm
#

in "Path/to/wsusou/sh/commonparts.inc"

And now the system does not more miss the "TERM" variable.

[Buster]

Thank you for this hint.

Additionally i changed DownloadUpdates.sh because of this warning which seems to be error output from cabextract on STDERR:

../client/wsus/wsusscn2_1.cab: WARNING; possible 16088 extra bytes at end of file.

So i changed

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cabextract -q -F package.cab ../client/wsus/wsusscn2_1.cab

to

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cabextract -q -F package.cab ../client/wsus/wsusscn2_1.cab 2>/dev/null

I'll watch my mails from cron again.

[hhullen]

esehen

Additionally i changed DownloadUpdates.sh because of this warning which seems to be error output from cabextract on STDERR:

../client/wsus/wsusscn2_1.cab: WARNING; possible 16088 extra bytes at end of file.

So i changed

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cabextract -q -F package.cab ../client/wsus/wsusscn2_1.cab

to

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cabextract -q -F package.cab ../client/wsus/wsusscn2_1.cab 2>/dev/null

.

Sollte problemlos funktionieren - ich habe in diesem Umfeld bisher einzig diese Warnung gesehen, keine einzige Fehlermeldung.

[WSUSUpdateAdmin]

http://trac.wsusoffline.net/browser/trunk (r486).
GTW

[MacKeon]

You should set the environment var in your profile.
.bashrc:
....

The Cron-Job don't use all User-Environment-Configuration-Files, so ".bashrc" or ".profile".

You can see this with the PATH-variable, that doesn't contain the PATH-Environment that cames from the User-Configfiles.