Re: wget in cron issue with dns resolution of local server

[Álvaro Pinel Bueno]

Hi,

El mar., 17 dic. 2019 a las 16:36, Petr Pisar (<address@hidden>)
escribió:

> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 03:45:57PM +0100, Álvaro Pinel Bueno wrote:
> > El mar., 17 dic. 2019 a las 15:36, Tim Rühsen (<address@hidden>)
> > escribió:
> >
> > > are you sure that " and * are not somehow removed / expanded ?
> > >
> > > To test, put the wget command into a shell script and start that script
> > > in the crontab. Does this make a difference ?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, I fact I realized this behavior using wget inside a bash script in
> > crontab, I copied the wget line from the script and added isolated to
> > root-cron and the behavior keep going.
> >
> Isn't the unwanted resolution of a the machine hostname performed by cron
> (or
> a sendmail command)? Cron can send an output of a job through e-mail. And
> by
> default it sends it to the owner of the crontab at the hostname. I would
> replace the wget command with something that prints to stdout and stderr
> and
> maybe exists with a non-zero exit code to verify that.
>

Of course, It's an issue with cron, with an other command happens too.

Thanks,

>
> -- Pete
>


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