On 29 November 2006 21:08, Andrew Louie wrote: > I want to set up a cron job to execute a perl script every day at 4am. I > have successfully set up the job so that it will execute the script, the > only problem is the script can take a long time to finish, as it does many > different tasks. > > The problem is that after about 1 minute, the script will just stop > executing when invoked from the cronjob. does anyone know how to keep the > cron service from exiting after 1 minute?
Write a script that doesn't crash after 1 minute? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/