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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Error in cron job; Post 302252026 by methyl on Tuesday 28th of October 2008 03:53:06 PM
Old 10-28-2008
I suspect that one of your kills is killing the login shell as well as the intended program.

This section of script may be the problem

rm $touchfile
/usr/local/bin/killpg $$
exit -1

I depends what "killpg" actually does. It is not a standard unix command.


Or possibly this area of script which ruthlessly kills parents and children of $WAITPROC.
/usr/proc/bin/ptree $WAITPROC | awk '{ print "kill -9 " $1 " 2> /dev/null "}' | ksh
BTW. Use "kill -9" at your peril. It is a last resort and not a way to end things tidily.
 

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yum-cron(8)															       yum-cron(8)

NAME
yum-cron - an interface to convieniently call yum from cron SYNOPSIS
yum-cron [config-file] DESCRIPTION
yum-cron is an alternate interface to yum that is optimised to be convenient to call from cron. It provides methods to keep repository metadata up to date, and to check for, download, and apply updates. Rather than accepting many different command line arguments, the dif- ferent functions of yum-cron can be accessed through config files. config-file is used to optionally specify the path to the configuration file to use. If it is not given, the default configuration file will be used. It is useful to be able to specify different configuration files for different use cases. For example, one configuration file might be set to update the repository metadata, and a line could be added to the crontab to run yum-cron frequently using this file. Then, another configuration file might be set to install updates, and yum-cron could be run from cron using this file just once each day. FILES
/etc/yum/yum-cron.conf /etc/yum/yum-cron-hourly.conf SEE ALSO
yum (8) AUTHORS
See the Authors file included with this program. BUGS
There of course aren't any bugs, but if you find any, you should email the mailing list, yum@lists.baseurl.org, or consult bugzilla. Nick Jacek yum-cron(8)
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