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Subject: RE: cron jobs quit after 1 minute
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:23:47 -0000
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On 29 November 2006 21:08, Andrew Louie wrote:

> I want to set up a cron job to execute a perl script every day at 4am. I
> have successfully set up the job so that it will execute the script, the
> only problem is the script can take a long time to finish, as it does many
> different tasks. 
> 
> The problem is that after about 1 minute, the script will just stop
> executing when invoked from the cronjob. does anyone know how to keep the
> cron service from exiting after 1 minute?

  Write a script that doesn't crash after 1 minute?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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