[ale] cron vs shell

[James P. Kinney III]

Is this a cron or shell option? 

On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 13:41, Danny Cox wrote:
> James.
> 
> On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 10:12, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > I have a script that runs perfect from a shell prompt. But when I run it
> > from cron, it hangs waiting for the first part to finish.
> > 
> > After setting up some variables and getting a list of names and machines
> > to work on, the script uses ssh to run a remote command to stop a
> > process, the is scp's the log file from that process to a common
> > location. Then it restarts the remote machine.
> > 
> > It hangs waiting for the process stop to finish when run as a cron job.
> > It doesn't when run from the command line. 
> > 
> > What is the difference between the two environments such that a process
> > stop request will never see it end? I have absolute paths for all the
> > commands. 
> 
> 	I've heard of this *type* of problem before.  Nevertheless, you might
> look into the -n option.  It redirects stdin to /dev/null.  It may prove
> useful in this case.
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