[ale] sometimes I hate bash

[Tim Watts]

Does set -x reveal anything?

Would it behave better if you didn't source .bash_profile (without
opening up another can o worms)?


On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 19:13 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 2 8 * * * /home/user/bin/scriptname
> 
> same incarnation works with a different script in the same directory
> but has no database work to do.
> 
> BTW: <esc>wq won't email in gmail as I just tried and discovered
> (without a vi plugin I saw)
> 
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:00 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
>         Post the crontab line, please?
>         
>         
>         On 12/16/2009 4:49 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>         > script runs all hunky-dorey in userland.
>         >
>         > so time to put it into cron. To cover my bases for inferior
>         cron
>         > environemnt, the first thing the script does is .
>         ~/.bash_profile which
>         > in turn runs ~/.bash_rc which runs /etc/bashrc
>         >
>         > So it now looks just like a login env.
>         >
>         > maybe...
>         >
>         > Except somehow it now spawns _2_ copies of the running
>         process and the
>         > race is on! <insert appropriate swearing here>
>         >
>         > Since it's highly sequence dependent data processing and
>         database
>         > insertion and database processing, multiple out of order
>         steps is very,
>         > VERY bad.
>         >
>         > Solution: make the first line a -f test for a pid file and
>         exit if it
>         > exists. The second line writes the pid file. Shouldn't have
>         to do this...
>         >
>         > Still totally stumped on the multiple simultaneous
>         processes.
>         >
>         > --
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>         >
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