crontab & restart
"Robert J. Brown" (rj@eli.wariat.org)
Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:49:57 -0500
>>>>> "D" == D Walker <dsw@u.washington.edu> writes:
D> So, does anyone know how to get a cron job working to restart a
D> moo once a week? The restart.sh that comes with the code uses
D> nohup, which requires a terminal, so I can't call that. I tried
D> just calling the command-line startup but that didn't work
D> either. I keep getting a "must be called from a terminal"
D> error.
D> Diana aka Trouble @ DownMOO
Try starting it with an expect script. That way, the pty that expect
allocates will look like a terminal to the MOO even thought there is
really no physical terminal involved. You can get expect at
ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/.
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