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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:48:12 +1000
From: Duncan Roe <duncan_roe AT acslink DOT net DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Problem with cron jobs
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 07:59:29AM -0400, Cary Lewis wrote:
> 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?
>
Yes - this is the behaviour you get with "set -e". To negate it, put "set +e"
at the top of your script,

Cheers ... Duncan.

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