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RE: cron jobs quit after 1 minute
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:23:47 -0000
- Subject: RE: cron jobs quit after 1 minute
On 29 November 2006 21:08, Andrew Louie wrote:
> I want to set up a cron job to execute a perl script every day at 4am. I
> have successfully set up the job so that it will execute the script, the
> only problem is the script can take a long time to finish, as it does many
> different tasks.
>
> The problem is that after about 1 minute, the script will just stop
> executing when invoked from the cronjob. does anyone know how to keep the
> cron service from exiting after 1 minute?
Write a script that doesn't crash after 1 minute?
cheers,
DaveK
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