Re: [gentoo-user] problems running doxygen from cron

[Dirk Uys <dirkcuys@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> Dirk Uys wrote:
>
>> I have a problem when running doxygen from a cron job. It seems like
>> doxygen is simply aborting at an arbitrary point during execution. I
>> tried to search on the internet, but could not find anything similar
>> reported.
> [...]
>> My cron entry is
>> 45 * * * * /home/user/script.sh >> /home/user/debug.log
>
> I would add a " 2>&1" to the cron entry in order to get stderr output
> logged, too. Maybe there are error messages you are missing.
>
> My cron problems usually come from the PATH being restricted, anthough
> this shoudl not matter in your case with the script, I think. Anyway, I'd
> start it with "#!/bin/bash -l" in order to open a login shell, and I
> would include the "env" command in the script so I can spot differences
> in the environment.
>
> Just some ideas,
>
>        Wonko

Thanks! I actually solved this one some time ago.

It turned out that because I omitted "2>&1" the stderr stream weren't
created. The program tried to write to stderr and terminated because
it didn't exist. Strange, but that's what happened.

Regards
Dirk