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From:	Joseph Skinner <joe@earthlight.co.nz>
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Subject: problems with an rc script called from cron
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Hi

I am having problems with the following script

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#! /usr/bin/rc 

res=`{telnet phoenix.earthlight.co.nz 4647  >[2] /dev/null} 
echo `{date} '     ' $res(10) >> /home/joe/bin/modemcheck.log
if ( ~ $res 1 2 3  ) {killppp 900 }
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This script works fine when called from the command line but when run
from cron nothing is returned in the variable $res.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what is going wrong here.

Joe.

ps. I am I still on this list as things seem to have been very quite
recently.


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