>>On 20/04/2010 08:52:58, mcoyles wrote: >> Morning all - on FreeBSD 7.1 (for various reasons - don't ask) >> Am attempting to run the following via cron but it keeps erroring out: >> >> kill -9 `ps ax | grep backup | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'` && kill -9 >> `ps ax | grep dump | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'` >> >> *snip* >> >> Works OK from commandline - what do I need to change to make this cronable??
> The usual problem is that the environment under cron is not set up > anything like the way it is for an interactive session. Particularly > the PATH. Either write you command as a small shell script and setup > PATH within it, or use fully qualified names for all commands. > > Your command is probably better expressed as: > > /bin/pkill -9 'backup|dump' Hi Matthew - cheers for that, I always forget the lack of common path in cron *sigh* Anyhoo, there are multiple instances of backup and dump coming back in ps -ax... your suggested command appears to only kill off the first instance? Have used my commands above in cron now using full path reference as per your advice - just waiting for the clock to click round to 11.30 here for them to run... Cheers... Marci _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"