# Errors with broctl cron **URL:** \ **Category:** Zeek\ **Created:** [March 10, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-with-broctl-cron/3035 "2014-03-10T14:40:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![C\_L\_Martinez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@C\_L\_Martinez](https://community.zeek.org/u/C_L_Martinez)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-with-broctl-cron/3035/1 "2014-03-10T14:40:29Z")
Hi all, Running Bro 2.2 under FreeBSD 10 host, "broctl cron" task returns me the following error every hour: warning: cannot get list of local IP addresses error: script must be run on manager node This is a Bro manager node controlling two Bro workers nodes. What can be the problem?? I have revised node.cfg and broctl.cfg and all its ok... ---
**Author:** ![Azoff\_Justin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@Azoff\_Justin](https://community.zeek.org/u/Azoff_Justin)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-with-broctl-cron/3035/2 "2014-03-10T15:12:30Z")
You get that error when the `local-interfaces` script fails. What happens if you run     /usr/local/bro/share/broctl/scripts/local-interfaces manually? ---
**Author:** ![C\_L\_Martinez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@C\_L\_Martinez](https://community.zeek.org/u/C_L_Martinez)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-with-broctl-cron/3035/3 "2014-03-10T15:16:09Z")
Here it is: root@testbro:~ # /nsm/bro/share/broctl/scripts/local-interfaces 10.196.0.103 fe80::5054:ff:fe91:3813 172.17.22.1 fe80::5054:ff:fec4:d17f 172.17.23.1 fe80::5054:ff:fe1a:3c94 172.17.24.1 fe80::5054:ff:fe69:9e59 ::1 fe80::1 127.0.0.1 Nothing strange in my opinion ... In ode.cfg I use IP 172.17.24.1 to connect to other workers ... ---
**Author:** ![Azoff\_Justin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@Azoff\_Justin](https://community.zeek.org/u/Azoff_Justin)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-with-broctl-cron/3035/4 "2014-03-10T15:34:43Z")
Yep, that's what it is supposed to do.. bro tries to fix the path in that script:     export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin so ifconfig can be found, but I wonder if it is not finding sed on your system. Can you double check what your PATH is in the shell vs. what it is for cron jobs? ---
**Author:** ![C\_L\_Martinez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@C\_L\_Martinez](https://community.zeek.org/u/C_L_Martinez)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-with-broctl-cron/3035/5 "2014-03-10T15:39:29Z")
PATH in cron: PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin crontab entry is: 59 \* \* \* \* root /nsm/bro/bin/broctl cron In my shell: PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/root/bin:/nsm/bro/bin sed: /usr/bin/sed /usr/share/man/man1/sed.1.gz /usr/src/usr.bin/sed ifconfig: /sbin/ifconfig /usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz /usr/src/sbin/ifconfig Uhmmm... I don't see where is the problem ... ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Thayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@Daniel\_Thayer](https://community.zeek.org/u/Daniel_Thayer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-with-broctl-cron/3035/6 "2014-03-10T17:13:01Z")
I think the problem is that "bash" (probably located in /usr/local/bin) is not found when broctl runs in a cron job. Probably the easiest fix is to create a symlink to bash in either /bin or /usr/bin. You might also need to make a symlink to python (broctl requires both bash and python). ---
**Author:** ![Azoff\_Justin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@Azoff\_Justin](https://community.zeek.org/u/Azoff_Justin)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-with-broctl-cron/3035/7 "2014-03-10T17:23:44Z")
Hmm, if you run broctl cron from the shell, does it work? ---
**Author:** ![C\_L\_Martinez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@C\_L\_Martinez](https://community.zeek.org/u/C_L_Martinez)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 10:32am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-with-broctl-cron/3035/8 "2014-03-11T10:32:02Z")
Ok, problem solved. I have created a custom script exporting PATH variable and all works ok. Many thanks for your help. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/errors-with-broctl-cron/3035/9 "2022-05-06T15:41:38Z")