Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 18:39:36 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: cron hanging on to child processes Message-ID: <E1JwhQW-000L1H-IE@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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I have a process which is run daily from cron that stops mysql, does some stuff, and starts it again. The scriput outputs a number of lines which are emailed to me in the output of the cron job. What I have noticed is that my emials actually lag by a day - it turns out that the cron job appears to not send the email until mysql is sut down the following day. I can only assume that when mysql is restarted, cron sees it as a child process, and thus does not terminate until that process does. Which happens when a new cron job shuts it down again 24 hours later. Any suggestions on fixing this ? I wouldn't have thought that stopping and starting a daemon was a particularly unusual thing to want to do from a cron job. -pete.
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