Re: Re: Why won't it die??

Yes, both these use background processes, the binaries put them back there automagically.

Good thinking anyways!

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Re[3]: Why won't it die?? by Bobcat (Scribe) on Aug 22, 2002 at 03:27 UTC
Is this a root cron or a user cron? `sudo` on my machine give me some funky errors and such if I run it when I'm root. Perhaps a `su - username` instead of the `sudo` would work? If it's a user cron, do you have to authenticate your sudo session with a password? If so, the cron-spawned shell is probably sitting there waiting for password input on `STDIN`. It'll eventually time out, but since the `STDIN` stream doesn't belong to a TTY that can give you input, it'll sit there. Hope this helps!	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re[3]: Why won't it die??
by Bobcat (Scribe) on Aug 22, 2002 at 03:27 UTC

sudo on my machine give me some funky errors and such if I run it when I'm root. Perhaps a su - username instead of the sudo would work?

If it's a user cron, do you have to authenticate your sudo session with a password? If so, the cron-spawned shell is probably sitting there waiting for password input on STDIN. It'll eventually time out, but since the STDIN stream doesn't belong to a TTY that can give you input, it'll sit there.

Hope this helps!

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