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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 18:25:00 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To: Cary Lewis <cary DOT lewis AT gmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with cron jobs
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Greetings, Cary Lewis!

> I have created a small shell script that acts like a network
> connectivity watchdog, which checks for a successful ping to the
> internet, and if it doesn't work, restarts the machine.

> When I attempt to run it from a cron job, the script exits whenever
> any of the commands exits with a non zero status, preventing the
> script from doing its job.

> Has anyone seen this behaviour before?

> I have tried wrapping the script in () to run it within a sub-shell,
> but to no avail.

man bash
You have to disable abort-on-error in your script.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 21.08.2014, <18:24>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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