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Old 04-25-2008
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Help with script that submits jobs at a certain time.
Here's the line I type everyday.


Code:
echo  "submit daily 00559 00010 00011" | at 21:00

I dunno. I'm totally new to this. Basically I want this to be fool-proof for everyone else we've had people do things like:

subit daily 00559 00010 00011
submit daly 00559 00010 00011
Submit daily (no params)
submit daily 00559 00010 0001111

So I'm tired of seeing it messed up.. The company doesn't want it added to cron (don't ask long story)
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Submitting an at job from the previous job is a time-honored method, even if in this case it sounds like you would be bending the rules a little bit.


Code:
#!/bin/sh

submit daily 00559 00010 00011
sleep 300 # just in case
echo "$0" | at 21:00

You'd run this at 21:00 once, and then it should take care of itself (until management notices ...)

$0 is the name of the currently running script, and echoing it to "at" will schedule it to run again at 21:00, tomorrow if submitted after 21:00 (at least in my version of at).
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Code:
#!/bin/sh

submit daily 00559 00010 00011
sleep 300 # just in case
echo "$0" | at 21:00

You'd run this at 21:00 once, and then it should take care of itself (until management notices ...)
Yes, so could I do


Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo "submit daily 00559 00010 00011" | at 21:00
echo "Daily Submitted. Please verify the atlist for correct times/parameters"
atlist

This is for the other people that are sometimes on-call. I would like them to be able to just type "subdaily.sh" and it adds it to at without any room to make errors.

I'm pretty "good" with batch files so that's why there may be some errors in that... But I'm new to HP-UX and this system. The previous guy left one day and I've been trying to pick it up as best as I can.
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Well yes, if you still want it submitted by hand then that's a good solution.
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Well yes, if you still want it submitted by hand then that's a good solution.
Yes I don't want to automate it. Apparently that's a gigantic no-no with this system (I was all for cron since the params never change), but oh well thank you very much. Is there such a thing as +Rep on this board? I can't find it. But many + Rep on to you nonetheless.
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