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Re: Problem with cron jobs


On 8/21/2014 7:25 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Cary Lewis!

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.

man bash
You have to disable abort-on-error in your script.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 21.08.2014, <18:24>

Sorry for my terrible english...



$ man bash | grep abort
Control-G will abort an incremental search and restore the original
       abort (C-g)

It might be better if your searched for "errexit".

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Andrew DeFaria
http://defaria.com


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