Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:43:10 -0700 (MST) From: Peter <peterk@americanisp.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Crontabs Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011090837130.5876-100000@oxygen.americanisp.net>
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I've not been able to find this in the crontab man pages (I skimmed could have missed it) but let's say I make a cron job of "ping yahoo.com," and since ping does not quit until you hit ctrl+c, will the cron job continue to run until I specifically kill it? If so under ps will it show as user bob pinging yahoo? or where will I find this under ps? Does cron kill it's jobs after x mins? Can I configure it so it will? (so I don't DoS myself thru runaways cronjobs). Another question: my sendmail crashes (signal 11, I need to remake it, I suppose) so cron can't send output to user, does this file/ouput get stored anywhere else? TY. *** Fortune *** Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied: "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." --- www.nul.cjb.net --- The Power to Crash! --- www.FreeBSD.org --- The Power to Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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