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April 16

Restart in cron

Hi! When some command (script) in crontab is broken, it automatically restarts. Is it possible to disable the restart? Or better: run some command if some something is broken. Did some googling, but didn't find anything helpful. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 05:46, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

For the latter, if you are speaking of detecting that some script stopped working and some cleanup is necessary, see [1] (but make sure to not only read the accepted answer); if you are speaking of executing a cleanup the moment a script failed, just put a Bash_(Unix_shell)#Conditional_execution inside your cron job. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 08:11, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]