1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All , We have few scripts which uses common environment/path setting variables. Now instead of putting classpath , framework,java_home ..... etc. in all the script, can we make a file with all common settings which can be envoked by the scripts while running. If yes , say setting file is... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Regarding Cron job, i want to execute a scriptevery 4 days once irrespective of a week or a month. Is it possible?Any help (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a cron job that ran for 3 months; all the suden, it stops working. There were no changes in the script. Is there away that I can find out why? can someone with root permission disable my cron-job? Is there away that I can look into the system to see who may have done that? My cron job... (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everybody ....I am trying to write a cron job for event based subscription for a tool called Microstrategy...if anybody have idea about this please help me... Thanks in advance ark (7 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I want to execute a script on the last day of every month. I tried using the following line but it failed: 50 23 * * * && cd live/cgi-bin/;perl org_stats_monthly_cron_job.cgi log shows: CMD: Its a Solaris box. Could someone please help me out? Thanks in advance. (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

can anybody explain the usage of CRON for adding a cron job. please provide an example also for better understanding !!! Thanks (1 Reply)

7. Solaris

I run cron in solaris 10 zone. One cron job which syncing files to nfs mounted on container, creates after finishing another cron proccess(/usr/sbin/cron), and after 100 existing cron proccesses next cron job will not start. It's too weird for me, I'm not able to solve this problem. Theoretically... (3 Replies)

8. Solaris

Hi , I have removed a cron for particular user , but cron job seems to be running even after the cron entry is removed. The purpose of the cron was to sendmail to user ( it uses mailx utility ) I have restarted cron and sendmail service still user is getting mail alerts from the cron job. And... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a requirement to write a shell script,that will check the all commented job in cron job.Please help !! (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, 1) If some job supposed to run on 1st of every month at 7 AM In cron job when we have a blackout on the 1st ( i.e when 1st falls on a sunday ) how can we make the job run the next business day? 2) How can we run a job on 25th of every quarter 7 AM(jan,apr,jul,oct) And if 25th... (5 Replies)