How often is the cron set to run? Does the btdownloadcurses remove the
.torrent file when it processes it? Could the cron be processing the
same torrent file more than once, as it is still in the directory its
looking in?
just a thought.
Keir
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?
>
> I have a small script (see below) that scans a directory for .torrent
> files and then starts a btdownloadcurses instance for each file. If I
> start the script from the shell, and I have 2 .torrent files in that
> directory, then I get 2 instances of btdownloadcurses running.
>
> However, if cron runs this script then I get a lot more
> btdownloadcurses running than I expected and it pretty much makes the
> nslu2 crawl along (until I manage to kill the processes).
>
> Any thoughts what might be going on here?
>
> Thanks
> Adam
>
> #!/bin/sh
> for i in $(ls *.torrent);
> do
> /usr/bin/btdownloadcurses $i > /dev/null &
> done
>
>
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