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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Job Completion Information? Post 302129984 by congo on Thursday 2nd of August 2007 05:08:35 PM
Old 08-02-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by davidfrank
Thank you for your reply.

I am a beginner in Unix. Can you give some idea as to how I would write these codes. Is there any special command to log these information?

Thanks again.

You can always use
$ echo "Script $0 started @ `date` >> $yourlogfile"
(note that you can modify the date format, to learn more about this try `man date`)

You can grep top 900 or ps -ef for your process (pid of current process is always $$). Note if you grep with $$ you will get first child process(es) out aswell. You can also grep for $0 (program itself), but if running multible times this is not certain.
for exit status you will use $? after a commandline (for instance "ls -l *.txt 2&1>/dev/null";echo $?) --- this means if files was found exit status of ls is 0 (0 is always the good exitstatus), if its greater than 0 it means either ls was flagged bad or it returned no rows.
You will then use $? in an if like "pexitcode=$?;if [ $pexitcode -gt 0 ]; then echo "$0 went bad, exiting with status $pexitcode";fi
(its always a good idea to set $? of a commandline right after, so that you will be able to use it later on

You can always exit your program, with an exitcode/status, note that no code after an exit will be run. You can choose your own exit codes as you wish, dont know if unix core has a limit, but somewhat all you need is less than a hundred...


hope this helps

Last edited by congo; 08-03-2007 at 05:33 AM..
 

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atq(1)								   User Commands							    atq(1)

NAME
atq - display the jobs queued to run at specified times SYNOPSIS
atq [-c] [-n] [username...] DESCRIPTION
The atq utility displays the at jobs queued up for the current user. at(1) is a utility that allows users to execute commands at a later date. If invoked by a user with the solaris.jobs.admin authorization, atq will display all jobs in the queue. If no options are given, the jobs are displayed in chronological order of execution. When an authorized user invokes atq without specifying username, the entire queue is displayed; when a username is specified, only those jobs belonging to the named user are displayed. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -c Displays the queued jobs in the order they were created (that is, the time that the at command was given). -n Displays only the total number of jobs currently in the queue. FILES
/var/spool/cron/atjobs spool area for at jobs. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
at(1), atrm(1), auths(1), cron(1M), auth_attr(4), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 13 Aug 1999 atq(1)
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