Cronjob not running the latest version of notify

[njmulsqb]

Hi,

I was using notify version 0.0.2 on my ubuntu machine, when I realized that this version does not have -bulk flag support so I again ran the go install command that is given on readme file to install the latest version.

Now the issue is, when I run notify using my terminal myself it shows that the version is 1.0.0 and the bulk command is working fine but when I run the same command through cronjob it throws the error.

I checked the version ran by the cronjob by running notify -version through cron and it returned version 0.0.2.

Somehow, cron isnt able to fetch the latest notify version.

Why is it so and whats the solution?

[forgedhallpass]

Could you please show a screenshot/paste the command and the error you are receiving?

[njmulsqb]

Could you please show a screenshot/paste the command and the error you are receiving?

[njmulsqb]

notify -version is showing 1.0.0 whereas sudo notify -version is using 0.0.2

[forgedhallpass]

Could you also do a which notify and sudo which notify and/or a locate notify? You might have two versions of notify installed on your machine. If you are using go get ... to install, it usually puts under $GOPATH/ but if the environmental variable is not set, it might download it under $HOME/go as a default, hence running the command with sudo could result in a different $HOME directory compared to your user home.

[njmulsqb]

Could you also do a which notify and sudo which notify and/or a locate notify? You might have two versions of notify installed on your machine. If you are using go get ... to install, it usually puts under $GOPATH/ but if the environmental variable is not set, it might download it under $HOME/go as a default, hence running the command with sudo could result in a different $HOME directory compared to your user home.

root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu: which notify
/root/go/bin/notify
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu: sudo which notify
/usr/local/bin/notify

[forgedhallpass]

Now you need to check whether those are symbolic links and if they point to the same binary or not. I'd assume no, which means that you have two versions installed on your machine.

[njmulsqb]

Now you need to check whether those are symbolic links and if they point to the same binary or not. I'd assume no, which means that you have two versions installed on your machine.

so how can I now get rid of this issue and just have one copy on my machine that is the latest one?

[forgedhallpass]

You can run /root/go/bin/notify -version and then /usr/local/bin/notify -version to see which one is the old version.
You can use ls -l /usr/local/bin/notify to see where does it point. If that is the old version then you can delete it, together with where it points.

You can also try GO111MODULE=on go get -u -v github.com/projectdiscovery/notify/cmd/notify, both with and without sudo, or go clean -i github.com/projectdiscovery/notify/cmd/notify... and reinstall again with the command above.

[njmulsqb]

You can run /root/go/bin/notify -version and then /usr/local/bin/notify -version to see which one is the old version.
You can use ls -l /usr/local/bin/notify to see where does it point. If that is the old version then you can delete it, together with where it points.

You can also try GO111MODULE=on go get -u -v github.com/projectdiscovery/notify/cmd/notify, both with and without sudo, or go clean -i github.com/projectdiscovery/notify/cmd/notify... and reinstall again with the command above.

Hi, I have removed both the installation with rm -rf now after again installing notify, sudo notify is saying that command is not found.

[forgedhallpass]

You should be able to find it under $HOME/go/bin/notify or $GOPATH/bin/notify. If you want it to be usable from anywhere, you'll have to create a symbolic link ln -s <the_path_to_notify> /usr/local/bin/notify.

[njmulsqb]

I am tired of different configurations but dont know somehow still notify is causing issues
I am running this command
sudo /root/go/bin/notify -data /root/automation/results/semrush/subdomains/outOfScope.txt -bulk
and its working perfectly, but when I run the exact same through cron, it fails with following error

sudo which notify gives command not found thats why I am running the binary with absolute path now. Whats wrong?

[parrasajad]

@njmulsqb this issue (#80 ) is fixed in dev and will be released soon, for now you can install dev version by running go install github.com/projectdiscovery/notify/cmd/notify@dev