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by boomlinde 2810 days ago
Well, this is not a cronjob that failed, it's just waiting for input.

Let's say that I did test the cronjob but that it starts "failing" after an update to the tool. My fault, I know, but at least I get mail when it fails while I won't if it's just waiting for input.
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dickeytk 2810 days ago
This scenario would only happen if a flag became required. Prompting or not it would still be an issue. (And it wouldn't prompt as this is a non-tty environment)
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boomlinde 2810 days ago
> Prompting or not it would still be an issue.

Yes, but in one case the issue would result in a mail because the cron job failed, and in the other case the issue would just cause the the process to hang indefinitely without notice

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dickeytk 2810 days ago
NO IT WON'T HANG. I give up. I don't know how else to try to explain this to you.
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