>>>>> "Howard" == Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Howard> I have one box that has a problem running cron jobs.  The jobs
Howard> start OK, but never complete.  If I run the job from the
Howard> command line then the job runs OK, so it's not a problem with
Howard> the command script, but with crond.

The only time I've had that problem was when the job was assuming that
stdin was a tty.  Cron (I think) closes stdin. 

Does the job run if you redirect its stdin  to /dev/null ??
Does it hang on the command line if you close stdin? ( sh job <&- )

Peter C
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