cron jobs quit after 1 minute

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On 29 November 2006 21:08, Andrew Louie wrote:

> I want to set up a cron job [...] 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

You might find that it's trying to send you mail, and that sendmail
(or some other mail executable) isn't available.  This will cause the
cron job to halt.  It caught me out when I first ran cygwin.

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73,
Ged.

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