09-23-2010
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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone,
I am trying to automate one process on Solaris OS.
This is what happens at the moment.
Every night at 19:30 and every hour after that we run a script that checks the status of databases. That script runs and prints if db's are OK at the end it states how many were down.
I am... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: andrei
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a ksh scrip (x) that scans a directory and does actions when a file arrives in this directory.
My question is what is the best way to schedule x?
1. Use cron tab and create a task running forever
2. Creat another ksh script (y) that runs (x) in a non-terminating loop
Which... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: GNMIKE
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to write script which will read a value from XML file and schedule crontab accordingly.
I have an XML file which has a key value structure where the entries is:
<Param Name="executionInterval" Value="600" />
600 means that the crontab should be scheduled to run every 600 sec.
... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: michaelbz
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
I am new guy for unix. I need help writing the following shell script.
My requirement is:
I have few pl/sql procedures(lets say 10). I want to run some of them (say 5) parallally in the background and once these are completed trigger the next ones one after other.
Could some one... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: chanduhyd4u
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
How can we run/schedule a shell script. Since there is no access to cron at this point of time we have to think other way out to run a script every hour.
How can we achieve this. Need advice.
How about using sleep,autosys etc...the script should trigger off every hour...which sends... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: noorm
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
My OS is Solaris 10. I want to schedule a job which i need to run between morining 6 to eve 6 once for every 2 hours. This is what i did.
0 6-18 * * 1-5 /monitor.sh
It runs for every hour how to make it for every two hours ......
Thanks,
Firestar. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: firestar
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
All,
Running the below script independently is working fine with no issue but once I am scheduling it in cron on my Linux environment it is not working.
Can anyone look into this and let me know what I have to modify here to schedule it properly.
09 03 * * 4 ksh 'cd... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Oracle_User
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
We can schedule a new job using crontab -e.
is there any other way to achieve the same(opening the file directly and add an entry).
I have tried to access /var/spool/crontabs directory. But i am getting permission denied error,
Please help me. Thanks (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: pandeesh
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to schedule a job as - Every Weekday at 12:30 PM and 9 PM in a single line. How can i do that (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: varlax
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10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have my script in below path in UNIX
/storage/sas_source/SDTM-Development/FileWatcher/filewatcher.sh
I want to schedule it to run every 30 secs.
Please let me know the steps to do it.
Thanks. (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: prats_7678
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CRON(8) System Manager's Manual CRON(8)
NAME
cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
SYNOPSIS
cron
DESCRIPTION
Cron should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local. It will return immediately, so you don't need to start it with '&'.
Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron
also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d/ directory, which are in a different format (see crontab(5)). Cron then
wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, checking each command to see if it should be run in the current minute. When execut-
ing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if
such exists).
Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its spool directory's modtime (or the modtime on /etc/crontab) has changed, and if it has,
cron will then examine the modtime on all crontabs and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab
file is modified. Note that the Crontab(1) command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a crontab.
SEE ALSO
crontab(1), crontab(5)
AUTHOR
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
4th Berkeley Distribution 20 December 1993 CRON(8)