cron job limits

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Tue Jun 13 16:29:30 UTC 2006


Is your shell different from the account running the cron job?  Is there 
any other jobs that might kill this cron job?

Add echo statements to your script and save a log file.  Be sure to 
redirect stderr as well as stdout to the log file.

         -Derek

At 10:34 AM 6/13/2006, Jim Pazarena wrote:
>I have a fairly lengthy routine which runs each
>Sunday morning in a cronjob. For many months
>now it has never completed, and I have to manually
>run it from the CLI. (which runs fine). The cronjob
>runs as root.
>
>It isn't failing because of a PATH problem,
>(it's just /usr/local/bin/analog running in dozens
>of repetitions)
>
>/usr/bin/limits shows most limits as infinity
>
>I don't get any email error message .. nothing! it just quits!
>
>any ideas?
>
>Thanks
>
>
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