Re: [cobalt-users] Cron Jobs

[Mat Kovach <mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 05:06:30PM +0100, manitu wrote:
: What happens if a cron job that was called by cron does not terminate, e.g.
: it "hangs". What would happen then ?

it hangs.......you would have to kill it manually, or write a cron task 
to kill your cron task.  Best bet is to make sure the script will handle
errors properly.
 
: Is it closed automatically somewhen or does it cause the whole system to
: crash ?

The the program does something that might cause the system to crash, it might.
But generelly just becasue is does not finish will not crash a system.

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Mat Kovach                                      mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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