Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:40:57 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Jim Pazarena <fquest@ccstores.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron job limits Message-ID: <448EDC89.2010404@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <448EDB17.6040305@ccstores.com> References: <448EDB17.6040305@ccstores.com>
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Jim Pazarena wrote: > I have a fairly lengthy routine which runs each > Sunday morning in a cronjob. For many months > now it has never completed, and I have to manually > run it from the CLI. (which runs fine). The cronjob > runs as root. > > It isn't failing because of a PATH problem, > (it's just /usr/local/bin/analog running in dozens > of repetitions) > > /usr/bin/limits shows most limits as infinity > > I don't get any email error message .. nothing! it just quits! > > any ideas? Add echo statements to the job, or change it to being a shell script that cron calls, which then runs all of your analog processes there. Make sure that MAILTO is set. If necessary, add a cronjob for /bin/false to check. :-) -- -Chuck
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