09-14-2008
This all depends on how the script is coded. With no information, I am guessing the script is hanging for some reason.
1. kill off the all of the processes running the script
2. Edit your script: either use some kind of lockfile or search ps output for more than 1 occurrence of your script
3. Make sure the cron envrionment - especially the PATH - is exactly the same as yours is when you test the script and it works. This includes the current working directory.
4. Don't use relative paths to files.
5. Change the cron entry to have the script create a log file .. myscript > /path/to/logfile
Other than that I cannot help you...
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IPESCRIPT(1) General Commands Manual IPESCRIPT(1)
NAME
ipescript - Run an Ipe script (written in Lua)
SYNOPSIS
ipescript script { arguments }
DESCRIPTION
ipescript runs an Ipe script written in Lua. The Ipe bindings are automatically available in the script. Ipescript looks for the script
in any of the script directories.
The script argument should not contain the .lua extension.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
ipescript respects the following environment variables:
IPELATEXDIR
the directory where ipetoipe runs Pdflatex.
IPESCRIPTS a list of directories where Ipescript will look for
scripts. When this variable is not set, Ipe searches first the current directory, then ~/.ipe/scripts, and finally the system-wide
Ipe script directory. When this variable is set, it should contain a list of directories, separated by semicolons. A single under-
score is replaced by the system-wide Ipe script directory.
IPEDEBUG
set this to 1 for debugging output from ipescript.
AUTHOR
Otfried Cheong
REPORTING BUGS
Please report bugs using Ipe bugzilla at http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/bugzilla.html
SEE ALSO
Ipe is documented fully in The Ipe Manual, which is available online at http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/manual/manual.html .
August 28, 2011 IPESCRIPT(1)