The safest thing to do is change process X, do not create a process Y.
Otherwise you are stuck with a kludge-y kind of thing where you call lsof or fuser repeatedly until you see that the logfile is no long open. See the man page on your system
example:
This does a lot of pointless polling. If your system has inotify (Linux/GNU derivative) you can call inotify to see when a file is closed. Same polling problem though.
Hi,
I'm trying to write a shell script that has a menu and then dependant on the selection, will automate some samba file transfer.
The problem is when I run the code without the case statement it runs fine. but when I put the case statement in the only way I can get the code to run is to... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have got a requirement like this.
a parameterized function custFtp which will take 5 i/ps and will do the following tasks.
p1) server name
p2) username
p3) password
p4) path name of the server where the file resides
p5) file name pattern
the function will work like this.
... (1 Reply)
I got the task writting Korn Shell script to automate the tuxedo login so that users neednot have to enter options manually. I have done that using expect tool from the Unix but my manger told me its not secure so you have to do that using Kornshell without using Expect. Here is the way to login to... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
Consider my script is getting input from user under utc/stb path. I should automate the script by reading inputs from .txt file. Whenever script is prompting for input, it should read from input file. Now, i have to create a script in different path that should run my old script by... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am very new in shell scripting. Have managed to prepare a script which will work to download data to local directory. But facing below problem. :wall:
Please help me out. Thanks in advance.
Problem:
1. I am unable to use delete command to delete data in the ftp location (I have... (2 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I have a clearcase script that i use to check in a single file at time on my clearcase server. the script is as follows
setmyview
settask 75098_MSI_TRILOGY_EIM
cd /vobs/Trilogy_R12/custom/msieim/12.0.0/sql/
cleartool co -nc .
ct mkelem -nc Filename_1.sql
cp... (3 Replies)
Hello All ,
I came across a tricky solution to devolop . Here is a part of the requirement automation .
I have different set of server say : Web ( has 4 servers under it ) , App ( has 4 servers under it ) , DB ( has 2 servers under it )
Above each i have different load balancers , Say : Web... (4 Replies)
Hi,
As a Oracle Developer, I am writing many Procedures,Functions and Packages. Facing Many optimization issue after writing these Database objects. Trying to tune it manually.
Can we write any Shell/Perl/Python script to Optimize these Database objects instead of doing manual check and... (1 Reply)
What I have:
I have a input.sh (script which basically connect to mysql-db and query's multiple tables to write back the output to output1.out file in a directory)
note: I need to pass an integer (unique_id = anything b/w 1- 1000) next to the script everytime I run the script which generates... (3 Replies)