Cronjob terminates early
- by TheBigO
In my crontab file I execute a script like so (I edit the crontab using sudo crontab -e):
01 * * * * bash /etc/m/start.sh
The script runs some other scripts like so:
sudo bash -c "/etc/m/abc.sh --option=1" &
sleep 2
sudo bash -c "/etc/m/abc.sh --option=2" &
When cron runs the script start.sh, I do ps aux | grep abc.sh and I see the abc.sh script running.
After a couple of seconds, the script is no longer running, even though abc.sh should take hours to finish.
If I do sudo bash /etc/m/start.sh & from the command line, everything works fine (the abc.sh scripts run for hours in the background until they complete).
How do I debug this?
Is there something I'm doing that is preventing these scripts from running in the background until they are done?
