On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:20 AM, herbert langhans <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 09:08:19AM +0200, Niels Dettenbach wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 11. April 2013, 08:38:07 schrieben Sie:
> > > Is there anything I can do about it? Probably rss2email doesnt exit in
> a
> > > correct way.
> > hmm,
> > did not worked with rss2email byself yet, but can you try to start the
> script
> > from shell and look if rss2email exists properly back to shell when run
> into
> > such a situation?
> > If not, you have to correct rss2email (it seems to be written in Python)
> i.e.
> > by putting a
> >       sys.exit(1)
> > or similiar there where the script seem to "hang" (or ask the rss2email
> devels
> > for it).
> > hth
> > best regards,
> >
> > Niels.
>
> Thanks Niels,
> now I have wait and look for such a timeout-error - just in that case it
> keeps the cron open. Other errors or no error behave correct.
>
> Is there some easy way to make cron and sh show the pid it just has
> opened? So that I can invoke rss2email and know for sure on what
> occasion it keeps the process? With top I just get a list of some more
> 'crons' opened ...
>
> Best
> herb langhans
>
>

Check the cron.log to tie back the cron pids to individual commands.

Do you just see cron open, or are there still rss2email/python procs
hanging around?

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