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Problem with cron jobs
- From: Cary Lewis <cary dot lewis at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 07:59:29 -0400
- Subject: Problem with cron jobs
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
I have created a small shell script that acts like a network
connectivity watchdog, which checks for a successful ping to the
internet, and if it doesn't work, restarts the machine.
When I attempt to run it from a cron job, the script exits whenever
any of the commands exits with a non zero status, preventing the
script from doing its job.
Has anyone seen this behaviour before?
I have tried wrapping the script in () to run it within a sub-shell,
but to no avail.
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