1. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, i am just wondering that wen we give the following code we make a process run in background...can the viceversa be performed?i.e can this be made foreground again # sleep 75& 21751 # (4 Replies)

2. 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)

3. Solaris

hi, how i woulsd be able to find that my cron job is running or not.. E.g abc (2 Replies)

4. 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)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have many CPU intensive processes running and sometimes I run them in the foreground so that I can see what the output is. I want to send that foreground process to the background, but also have it direct the output to a logfile. I know to send something to the bg I do Ctrl-z on the FG... (6 Replies)

6. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

Could some one help to so that I can set up a cron job such that it will check the changes of a particular network folder??? (5 Replies)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. 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)