Re: [SLUG] cron troubles

[Peter Chubb <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Howard" == Howard Lowndes <lannet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Howard> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Peter Chubb wrote:
>> >>>>> "Howard" == Howard Lowndes <lannet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
Howard> I have one box that has a problem running cron jobs.  The jobs
Howard> start OK, but never complete.  If I run the job from the
Howard> command line then the job runs OK, so it's not a problem with
Howard> the command script, but with crond.
>> The only time I've had that problem was when the job was assuming
>> that stdin was a tty.  Cron (I think) closes stdin.
>> 
>> Does the job run if you redirect its stdin to /dev/null ??  Does it
>> hang on the command line if you close stdin? ( sh job <&- )

Howard> It looks like you have something there Peter.  At the command
Howard> line:

Howard> job <-runs OK sh job <-runs OK job <&- <-hangs sh job <&-
Howard> <-hangs

OK add an explicit redirection of stdin to /dev/null in the crontab
--- that'll probably fix it.

  job < /dev/null

PeterC