Re: crontab & restart

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:49:57 -0500
From:
"Robert J. Brown" <rj@eli.wariat.org>
CC: moo-cows@the-b.org
In-reply-to: <199707291947.MAA12595@saul9.u.washington.edu>(dsw@u.washington.edu)

>>>>> "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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