[ale] Kcron and Streamripper - Solved

[BBBB]

In reading the Ubuntu Man Pages for crontab.
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man5/crontab.html
I saw the note:

# use /bin/sh to run commands, no matter what /etc/passwd says
        SHELL=/bin/sh

I set the shell variable to /bin/sh and now it works fine. 

Thanks to those who responded. 

Bradley



Jim Kinney wrote:
> Strange. Sounds like an environment issue. What happens if you run it 
> from a regular crontab cron job?
> Also, how does it stop on time in your script?
>
> I'm wondering if the kcron applet gets swapped out and the process 
> just dies then.
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:31 PM, BBBB <brad.list at thingbuilder.com 
> <mailto:brad.list at thingbuilder.com>> wrote:
>
>     I wrote a little script that starts Streamripper and records from an
>     internet
>     radio station to record a friend's late-night radio show.
>      It is set to run for 2 hours. If I run it from a terminal, it
>     continues to record
>     but if I start it with Kcron, it records 176.0 KB and stops.
>      I Googled up the same problem but didn't find an answer.
>     Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10
>
>     Any help would be appreciated.
>
>     thanks,
>     Bradley
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