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05-05-2006

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Why not make the "trigger-condition" part of the script itself?

I don't know if a crontab is the right place for this. Of course it could be done, you can enter individual shellcommands in a crontab, so why not an if-then condition, but this makes things so much more complicated.
Keep all your logic in one place (script) and put the scheduling where it belongs (crontab).

Just my $0.02

Edit: Oops, didn't read the part where you have 100 scripts that you need to run. Why not use an overall-startscript that runs the other scripts? You can put your condition there...

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