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Article #18Re: Trouble with CRON
From: Pat Cain
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:12
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:12
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rop@hacktic.nl (Rop Gonggrijp) in <P6JFoB1w165w@hacktic.nl> writes: > I seem to be having a problem with the waffle CRON: > Some jobs don;t get executed. Not sure if this would be the cause of the problem, but if you're calling batch files in the schedule file then you should have "call batchfile", for example: 5 1 * * * e:\waffle\bin\stats 10 1 * * * call pollwcc 20 1 * * * call dobond 0 19 * * * copy e:\waffle\text\peak.msg e:\waffle\text\files 30 23 * * * call pollcave If you don't have "call" when calling batch files then jobs will be dropped if more than one job gets delayed by a user online or whatever. This is due to the way DOS does batch files .. in the above example, if a user was online from 1:00 to 1:25 then "e:\waffle\bin\stats", "call pollwcc", and "call dobond" would be put one after another in waffle/bin/cron.bat: e:\waffle\bin\stats call pollwcc call dobond then Waffle would exit and run it then return. But, if I had just "e:\waffle\bin\stats", "pollwcc", and "dobond" then Waffle would create a batchfile cron.bat: e:\waffle\bin\stats pollwcc dobond When DOS runs that it runs e:\waffle\bin\stats okay since it's a DOS executable. But because pollwcc doesn't have a CALL before it, it runs it then when it's finished it exits back to the run.bat batch file, and DOBOND never gets run. This is possibly what is happening to you -- check your schedule file and see if there are CALLs before every batch file, if not them put some in..
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!cavebbs!sideways!patrick From: Pat Cain <patrick@sideways.welly.gen.nz> Newsgroups: alt.bbs.waffle,comp.bbs.waffle Subject: Re: Trouble with CRON Message-ID: <1992Jul27.121254.wof_il@sideways.welly.gen.nz> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:12:54 GMT References: <P6JFoB1w165w@hacktic.nl> Reply-To: Pat Cain <cain_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz> Organization: SillyNews, Sideways bulletin board, Lower Hutt, New Zealand Lines: 41