Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 21:23:48 -0700 From: "Atom Powers" <atom.powers@gmail.com> To: "Olivier Nicole" <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how does cron exec jobs? Message-ID: <df9ac37c0606072123k2c1ef772u760f088e32cac1b9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200606080321.k583Lto6083694@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <df9ac37c0606071548vea943fas284171d21da3fbd0@mail.gmail.com> <200606080321.k583Lto6083694@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On 6/7/06, Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote: > > How can I simulate a cron job from the shell? There must be something > > different about the way cron is executing this command... > > Counld be different environment variables set, different working > directory... That's what I'm trying to find out. The cron man pages are ... empty on the subject. > Any diagnostic when it hangs? Not that I can tell. It runs on schedule but it never clears it's locks (which it puts on files at is edits them) as it is supposed to; and it does when run from the shell. So it truth, it's not so much that it "hangs", it does terminate, but it doesn't honor it's lock time-outs like it does when run outside of cron. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--
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