On 19 sep, 16:50, Zentrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I run the command /usr/sbin/program_prgchk everything works (no > > <defunct> process) > > But when I use it in the crontab I get a <defunct> process > > The crontabs file on my system is stored in /var/spool/cron/ > crontabs/. It appears you are checking the wrong file. Try a > "crontab -e" from the command line and compare it to the contents in > the /etc/crontab file.
The crontab is working because I can see that he started the os.system('/usr/sbin/program_reseller') AND a <defunct> process (what I can only kill by killing the '/usr/sbin/program_reseller' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list