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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:43:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Brian Seklecki (Mobile)" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
To:        Dwayne Henderson <its.code.in.here@gmail.com>
Cc:        ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Crontabbing a Ruby script inside a screen
Message-ID:  <alpine.LRH.2.00.1301241140590.6438@ecs00.cozzaenterprises.com>
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screen(1) is just going to fill a massive buffer, then eventually core.

You can capture stdout/stderr to a file using script(1) instead.  Its 
basically  the same as:

% nohup ./command 2>&1 | tee -a ~/command.log &

~BAS

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Dwayne Henderson wrote:

> Hi, I run this Ruby + Sequel script inside a screen that records data from
> this live stream 24/7. But it tends to core dump every once in a while, and
> since I run it in a screen (so it's easy to check in on), I can't really
> scroll up to catch the error whenever it happens.
>
> So how do I crontab the screen with the Ruby s



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