-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Earlier this week I posted a link to a Bash script that just wouldn't quit running itself multiple times, or so I thought. As it turns out, the problem was a simple case of pilot error. The script is a podcast receiver, and it was running in a cron job that was supposed to run once every 4 hours. But I was receiving an endless supply of emails from Cron that said the script couldn't move files because they were already moved by another copy of the script. The ps command showed at least 60 copies of the script running at one time. WOW! Well, I just found out last noght why it ras running itself. As it turns out, it wasn't running itself at all. Cron was running it. I had somehow inadvertantly set my cron job to run once a minute throughout the hours of midnight, 4 am, 8 am, noon, 4 pm and 8 pm. For those of you who downloaded the script from the link I provided, you do have a fully working podcast client specially tailored to those who burn their podcasts onto mp3 CD's or CDRW's. And it does work, I just messed up the cron job, and I will be fixing the script shortly so that it will fail to run if it is already running in case I or anyone else messes up the cron job like I did. Go ahead and send me a message if you want the script and I will resend the link to you when I have added the new functionality. Lorenzo - -- "We decided that we should evaluate the Microsoft offerings first. Once we realised what a powerful set of tools they were, it became self-evident this was the right way to go down." Microsoft: the right way to go down -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCg7xHG9IpekrhBfIRAubXAKCCVS/9J6D9GVOfwohHkY4urKyDkQCgmQch bscW6zbbvUhezLw4X0T23l8= =+X42 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
