>>>>> "Howard" == Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Howard> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Peter Chubb wrote: >> >>>>> "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 <&- ) Howard> It looks like you have something there Peter. At the command Howard> line: Howard> job <-runs OK sh job <-runs OK job <&- <-hangs sh job <&- Howard> <-hangs OK add an explicit redirection of stdin to /dev/null in the crontab --- that'll probably fix it. job < /dev/null PeterC -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
