Am Donnerstag, 11. April 2013, 13:20:58 schrieben Sie: > Is there some easy way to make cron and sh show the pid it just has > opened? So that I can invoke rss2email and know for sure on what > occasion it keeps the process? With top I just get a list of some more > 'crons' opened ... hmm, not shure if i understand you fully here (do you mean the PID of the rss2email procs?) - you might write a short wrapper shell script in between which starts rss2email and writes out the PIDs i.e. into a file. rss2email & R2E_PID=$! echo $R2E_PID >> /some/file/with/rss2email.pids Why not trying to get the rss2email error from the shell directly (i know that it may take some time / many starts to un into that error in practice...)? Then you can see what / where it is hanging there... hth a little best regards, Niels. -- --- Niels Dettenbach Syndicat IT & Internet http://www.syndicat.com PGP: https://syndicat.com/pub_key.asc ---
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