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Re: Problem with cron jobs
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Cary Lewis <cary dot lewis at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:25:00 +0400
- Subject: Re: Problem with cron jobs
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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.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 21.08.2014, <18:24>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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