On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 20:37:57 +0000 (+0000), AdamC wrote: > Can anyone think of a reason why when cron executes a script many more > programs start (at least over 5), but when I run the script from a > shell, I get the correct amount of programs running that I am > expecting?
won't you need to nohup (or disown) the programs otherwise I think the shell kicked off by cron might stick around until the torrents have finished downloading. Adrian -- Email: adr...@smop.co.uk -*- GPG key available on public key servers Debian GNU/Linux - the maintainable distribution -*- www.debian.org -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
