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Offline bigpcman

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stumped on preventing crond terminal message
« on: February 12, 2009, 01:35:59 PM »
I have a crond job running that I created with crontab -e which works fine.
cron job
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*/15 * * * *  /mnt/sda1/myscript > /dev/null 2>&1
However, when I exit out of x to the tc command prompt (or bootup using "text") I see that every time crond executes the cron job it outputs a message to the terminal and then "hangs" requiring a cnt c to regain the terminal prompt.
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crond [5817]: USER root pid 6130 cmd  /mnt/sda1/myscript > /dev/null 2>&1
How do I correct this behavior?
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Offline Kingdomcome

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Re: stumped on preventing crond terminal message
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2009, 02:47:12 PM »
you can edit the wrapper /etc/init.d/crond and add -L /dir/to/cron.log or -L /dev/null to the OPTIONS variable

Offline bigpcman

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Re: stumped on preventing crond terminal message
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2009, 03:25:49 PM »
you can edit the wrapper /etc/init.d/crond and add -L /dir/to/cron.log or -L /dev/null to the OPTIONS variable

Oh the "-L" option! I was starting crond in bootlocal.sh using crond > /dev/null 2>&1. I didn't know about -L so now when I use,
"crond -L /dev/null 2>&1" everthing works as it should. Thanks for the help.
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Offline hliauw

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Re: stumped on preventing crond terminal message
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2010, 03:45:31 PM »
you can edit the wrapper /etc/init.d/crond and add -L /dir/to/cron.log or -L /dev/null to the OPTIONS variable


I tried this, but after reboot, the file reverted back to the original file with OPTIONS="-b". Does this file get a fresh copy on every boot?

Offline maro

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Re: stumped on preventing crond terminal message
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2010, 06:04:55 PM »
@hliauw: What kind of persistence do you use? The file in question (i.e. '/etc/init.d/crond') is by default not included in any backup.

So to include the changed file into the backup you'll need to add etc/init.d/crond to '/opt/.filetool.lst' (please note the lack of a leading forward slash). Afterwards you need to ensure that a backup is performed, and you should expect that the files gets restored as part of your reboot.

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Re: stumped on preventing crond terminal message
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2011, 06:10:47 AM »
you can edit the wrapper /etc/init.d/crond and add -L /dir/to/cron.log or -L /dev/null to the OPTIONS variable
"crond -L /dev/null 2>&1"
Kingdomcome, bigpcman,
 
Thanks for this!

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