On Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 20:37:57 +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?
1. Cron runs.
1a. Cronjob finds *.torrent
1b. btdownloadcurses starts for each file.
2. Cron runs. Again - goto 1a.
Solution? Make sure that you only start once for each file. Maybe
something like this:
(Notice I've removed the $(ls ..) seems redundant )
#!/bin/sh
# start in correct dir
cd /home/skx/torrents/spool
# find *.torrent
for i in *.torrent; do
# if not already running start up
if [ ! -e $i.working ]; then
#create marker so this file is ignored by
# next run of cron
touch $i.working
# download
/usr/bin/btdownloadcurses $i > /dev/null &
fi
done
Steve
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