[ale] sometimes I hate bash

[Jeff Hubbs]

If this is going into /etc/crontab as opposed to a user's own crontab 
(including root's), there needs to be a username specced before the path.

Jim Kinney wrote:
> 2 8 * * * /home/user/bin/scriptname
>
> same incarnation works with a different script in the same directory 
> but has no database work to do.
>
> BTW: <esc>wq won't email in gmail as I just tried and discovered 
> (without a vi plugin I saw)
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:00 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net 
> <mailto:jknapka at kneuro.net>> wrote:
>
>     Post the crontab line, please?
>
>     On 12/16/2009 4:49 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>     > script runs all hunky-dorey in userland.
>     >
>     > so time to put it into cron. To cover my bases for inferior cron
>     > environemnt, the first thing the script does is .
>     ~/.bash_profile which
>     > in turn runs ~/.bash_rc which runs /etc/bashrc
>     >
>     > So it now looks just like a login env.
>     >
>     > maybe...
>     >
>     > Except somehow it now spawns _2_ copies of the running process
>     and the
>     > race is on! <insert appropriate swearing here>
>     >
>     > Since it's highly sequence dependent data processing and database
>     > insertion and database processing, multiple out of order steps
>     is very,
>     > VERY bad.
>     >
>     > Solution: make the first line a -f test for a pid file and exit
>     if it
>     > exists. The second line writes the pid file. Shouldn't have to
>     do this...
>     >
>     > Still totally stumped on the multiple simultaneous processes.
>     >
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