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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 302313053 by instant000 on Monday 4th of May 2009 01:35:23 PM
Old 05-04-2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vbe
And if the second script fail the others are never called?

Why not simply have a script for each user called by root cronfile?
Then the syntax would be in the cron file:
su - <user> -c <your_users_script>
Actually, if any of the three scripts fail, the process fails.

I'm asking because I don't know how to do this.

This is what I know how to do:

su <username>
cd /path/path/path/path
driver1.stop
driver1.start
exit
su <username2>
cd /path/path/path
driver2.stop
driver2.start
exit
su <username3>
cd /path/path/path
driver3.stop
driver3.start

Are you saying that I can schedule them independently of each other?

Due to the nature of the program (drivers for some program to tie into a database), I am not sure if I can do them, except in this order.
 

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