1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I'm trying to write a shell script that will ping a site and and write the date and 1 or 0 (for success or no success) to a file. it looks roughly like this: #/bin/sh set mydate = `date` set myvar = `ping -c 1 hostname | grep -c "100%"` if ($myvar == 1) then echo... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All I want to run a script every half an hour everyday, but it looks like it is not working the way it is supposed to. I use the line 0,30 * * * * ksh /...<script> But it only runs every hour at 30 minutes. Am i doing something wrong ? I use AIX 5.1 as my OS. Thanks In... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a shell script, it run ok if executed from the path it is located at but doesnot run when the same is tried through cron-job. can someone help me please. regards gaurav shrinivas Email address removed (8 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hiii, can nayone provide me the sample script which can do the following tasks--- I will apperciate if anyone give me their valuable inputs.I guess this is not at all a big task for the experts in the forum so kindly help me out in this. (3 Replies)

5. Solaris

Hi All, Good Day. Anyone can guide me on how to create a cronjob script that run prstat -a and vmstat 10 10 on the certain time of the day and produce a log which will be kept in a specific directory? I am running on Solaris 10. Thanks. (2 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi everyone I'm newbie in this forum hope I can get some help here :) I have a command in crontab that executed every 1 minute sometime this command need more than 1 minute to finish the problem is, the crontab execute this command although it's not finish processing yet and causing the system... (7 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have a .ksh script which updates the database. The script is running fine manually but it is not running through cron.All the file permissions are fine. The script contents are as below: #!/usr/bin/ksh ddate=`date +%Y%m%d` echo $ddate nohup sqlplus crm/crm @db_state_sync.sql >>... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I have a couch Db server running. I have written a script which will check and kill the multiple instances of the same and then start again a new one. Now when i start the db server manually, the UI of the DB is accessible via browser. But when i do the same using cronjob, the UI of... (0 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I have a script which will cd into a directory based on current timestamp. It will then do a grep and search for a condition. It's run on a cron job that runs every 30 minutes. So if it finds a match in 00, it sends out the contents of that grep to an alert and emails out. Now... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a linux server for my joomla website. I am importing xml feeds (around 200). The component give a tool which list all the cron job commands to automaticaly make the feeds import I don't want to add one by one each cron job. So my idea is to make one cron job which will call a shell... (0 Replies)