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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers unusual problem with cp command Post 302690653 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 23rd of August 2012 08:23:58 AM
Old 08-23-2012
To expand a lot on vbe and RudiC's posts:

Does the first cron job ALWAYS complete in less than two minutes? If cron starts another job after two minutes and the previous one is still running, things will become awful rapidly.

Also: You are not checking either filesize or mtime of the .cdr file. How do you know if the .cdr file is ready to be archived? If mtime < 30 seconds old, the file may still be open and being written. The kernel syncs file data periodically, usually less than 1 minute intervals.

In any case you may be processing or trying to process incomplete or partially processed .cdr files. Note gzip does not rename the inputfile until after it completes, for example.

Also consider redirecting stderr in your cron entry:
Code:
2,4,6,8 * * * * /path/to/myscript.sh 2>>/path/to/errorlog.log

Then you can see what is going wrong. At least any errors.
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scvim_make_help

SCVIM(1)						      General Commands Manual							  SCVIM(1)

NAME

       scvim_make_help - strip SuperCollider HTML help to text, for use with scvim

SYNOPSIS

       scvim_make_help [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the scvim_make_help command.

       scvim_make_help	is  a  script that strips SuperCollider HTML help to text format, for use with scvim. Users do NOT normally need to invoke
       it, since it is called by the main scvim script upon first run.	The stripped files are placed in ~/.scvim by  default,	but  this  can	be
       overridden by specifying SCVIM_CACHE_DIR environment variable.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -s --source-dir directory
	      Specify the soruce directory to search for HTML help files.

       -d --dest-dir directory
	      The Destination Directory for the processed Help Files.

       -c --clean
	      Clean the Destination Directory before building the helpfiles.

       -f --force
	      Do not prompt to see if the user is sure about deleting files.

       -h --help
	      Show summary of options.

SEE ALSO

       scvim(1)
       /usr/share/doc/supercollider-vim/README.scvim

AUTHOR

       scvim was written by Alex Norman <alex at x37v dot info>.

       This manual page was written by Dan Stowell <danstowell@users.sourceforge.net>, for the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others).

								   Nov 18, 2008 							  SCVIM(1)
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