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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to run script? call other script? su to another user? make a cron? Post 302312954 by instant000 on Monday 4th of May 2009 08:54:53 AM
Old 05-04-2009
Java how to run script? call other script? su to another user? make a cron?
Good morning. I am searching for "how-to"'s for some particular questions:

1. How to write a script in HP-UX 11.

2. How to schedule a script. [using cron job.]

3. How to "call" scripts from the original script.

4. How to su to another user from within a script.

This is the basics of what the script should do.
su to a user
go to a specific directory
execute a process to stop a driver,
then another process to start a driver
exit su
begin the same as above, for the next user, and so on.


[I know the gist of the steps, because I do them from command line, but I
consulted with a person who works here, and he said you can't just script
the exits all in one file, because it'll make the script quit. My idea, is that
if we could somehow have the script call other scripts, that would work,
right? I hope that you gurus can assist lil 'ol me]

I need a script that does this:

1. call a second script, that does this:

2. su to user_x
3. cd to a specific directory
4. run a specific process to stop a driver [process already made, only
user_x can run it]
5. run a specific process to start a driver [process already made, only
user_x can run it]
6. exit [to quit out of su for user_x]

7. call a third script, that does this:

8. su to user_y
9. cd to a specific directory
10. run a specific process to stop a driver [process already made, only
user_y can run it]
11. run a specific process to start a driver [process already made, only
user_y can run it]
12. exit [to quit out of su for user_y]

13. call a fourth script, that does this: (you probably know where I'm
going with this by now ...)

14. su to user_z
15. cd to a specific directory
16. run a specific process to stop a driver [process already made, only
user_z can run it]
17. run a specific process to start a driver [process already made, only
user_z can run it]
18. exit [to quit out of su for user_z]

19. end of script

20. schedule script to run every morning at 5:30 AM using cron

I had looked around the forum, and I think I could do this so far:

script name: startdriver.sh

and it calls other scripts (something like this)

startdriver1.sh && startdriver2.sh && startdriver3.sh

I hope that someone can assist me. I don't know the syntax for writing
the scripts. I know the manual commands to type in during a session, but
not the scripting.

I know that we use HP-UX, and that we use cron for scheduling jobs.

I wish that I was more help.

If you need more information prior to assisting me, please give me a
command I can run to find out that information.

[I don't normally do Unix work. I want the script so that I don't have to
manually type in the commands.]

If this forum is not the proper place for a beginner such as myself, please
direct me to the proper forum.

Thanks!
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

queuedefs

queuedefs(4)							   File Formats 						      queuedefs(4)

NAME

       queuedefs - queue description file for at, batch, and cron

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/cron.d/queuedefs

DESCRIPTION

       The queuedefs file describes the characteristics of the queues managed by cron(1M). Each non-comment line in this file describes one queue.
       The format of the lines are as follows:

	      q.[njobj][nicen][nwaitw]

       The fields in this line are:

       q	The name of the queue. a is the default queue for jobs started by at(1); b is the default queue for jobs  started  by  batch  (see
		at(1)); c is the default queue for jobs run from a crontab(1) file.

       njob	The  maximum  number of jobs that can be run simultaneously in that queue; if more than njob jobs are ready to run, only the first
		njob jobs will be run, and the others will be run as jobs that are currently running terminate.  The default value is  100.

       nice	The nice(1) value to give to all jobs in that queue that are not run with a user ID of super-user.  The default value is 2.

       nwait	The number of seconds to wait before rescheduling a job that was deferred because more than njob jobs were running in  that  job's
		queue, or because the system-wide limit of jobs executing has been reached.  The default value is 60.

       Lines beginning with # are comments, and are ignored.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: A sample file.

       #
       #
       a.4j1n
       b.2j2n90w

       This  file  specifies that the a queue, for at jobs, can have up to 4 jobs running simultaneously; those jobs will be run with a nice value
       of 1.  As no nwait value was given, if a job cannot be run because too many other jobs are running cron will wait 60 seconds before  trying
       again to run it.

       The  b  queue, for batch(1) jobs, can have up to 2 jobs running simultaneously; those jobs will be run with a nice(1) value of 2.  If a job
       cannot be run because too many other jobs are running, cron(1M) will wait 90 seconds before trying again to run it. All	other  queues  can
       have up to 100 jobs running simultaneously; they will be run with a nice value of 2, and if a job cannot be run because too many other jobs
       are running cron will wait 60 seconds before trying again to run it.

FILES

       /etc/cron.d/queuedefs	       queue description file for  at, batch, and  cron.

SEE ALSO

       at(1), crontab(1), nice(1), cron(1M)

SunOS 5.10							    1 Mar 1994							      queuedefs(4)
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