Re: How to start program in cron script?

1998-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes: 0 8 * * * /usr/local/bin/myprogram 21 | /usr/bin/logger -i -t myprogram /dev/null 21 That's a nice alternative, but I found that logger doesn't quit after myprogram is done. What am I overlooking now? The only thing that comes to mind is

Re: How to start program in cron script?

1998-11-19 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To fix this, you need to stop myprogram from sending any output to cron. Oh, of course! I am so stupid. My recommendation would be: 0 8 * * * /usr/local/bin/myprogram /dev/null 21 Yes, that was it. Now it works. Thanks a mill! 0 8

How to start program in cron script?

1998-11-16 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! I am giving up. For at least an hour I tried to write a shell script (t obe run by cron) that start another program and sends it into the background. For example, I tried: #! /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/myprogram or: #! /bin/sh nohup /usr/local/bin/myprogram But no matter how I did it, I

Re: How to start program in cron script?

1998-11-16 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes: I am giving up. For at least an hour I tried to write a shell script (t obe run by cron) that start another program and sends it into the background. [snip] But no matter how I did it, I ended up with the program running as it should but the