Virus Update Scripts with Timeouts

[Gerry Doris]

> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:26:08 +0200, I wrote:
>> I've tried these new scripts here on a redhat 9 box - they work fine
>> if called directly from a shell prompt, but for some reason don't log
>> the usual updated / does not need updating information to the syslog
>> when called from Julian's cron.hourly script. Any ideas?
>
> Suddenly had a flash of inspiration - I'd forgotten to dos2unix these
> scripts when transferring them from the Windows box on which I receive
> mail. I don't fully understand why they worked anyway when called
> directly from shell, but still... they work correctly now no matter
> how I call them.
>
> John.
>

Great!  No one else complained and I wasn't able to reproduce the error.
Thanks for getting back.

Gerry