RE: Re: trouble with CRON

RE: Re: trouble with CRON

[johnjulian1]

If the process has been up for more than 24 hrs then the awk positional parameter for ezproxy would be wrong. It would be $9 instead of $8

you could try: ps -ef | grep [e]xproxy | awk '{print "kill......

Kyle <kb57442@yahoo.com> wrote:

>  One other thing to realize is that cron doesn't run
>.profile or .bashrc.  Sometimes your PATH, as well as
>other variables, needs to be setup.
>
>--- "Shroyer-Matchan, Cherie (SHROYECL)"
><SHROYECL@UCMAIL.UC.EDU> wrote:
>> I am having a problem getting a CRON job to run in
>> LINUX 6.1.  
>> 
>> I added this line to my crontab using crontab -e
>> logged in as root.
>> 
>> 0 0 * * * ps -ef |awk '$8=="./ezproxy" {print "kill
>> -9 " $2}' | sh; cd
>> /usr/local/ezproxy; ./ezproxy & 
>> 
>> This line worked on other LINUX and UNIX
>> installations.  It also works from
>> the command prompt.
>> It fails to run.
>> 
>> Any ideas???
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