1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I am new to this forum and relatively new to unix, but hope to become an expert soon! My question is: How can I find out the execution time of a command that has already completed execution? More specifically, I launched a Python script to populate a PostgreSQL database on Suse... (2 Replies)

2. Solaris

Hi, Thanks in advance. i need to kill a unix background running job after that job process completes. i can kill a job by giving the following unix command kill -9 processid how to kill the job after the current process run gets completed ? Appreciate your valuable help. Thanks... (7 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I was working on a shell script with randomly shows a page of text from a randomly selected topic .As soon as the page is displayed it callers a timer script which keeps on running indefinitely until the timer script is killed by the user. This is where I have the problem,if I press... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

helo, i read man pages but still confuse about wait3() and wait4() stystem call what is exact diff b/w wait3() and wait4() system call and what is diff b/w waitpid() and wait3() and wait4() Regards, Amit (1 Reply)

5. Solaris

Hi Everybody, Can somebody tell me the difference between /etc/system and user profile???? (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all , i know i ask a lot of question but these are really hard to solve and important question. I send two scripts: expect.sh: #!/usr/local/bin/expect spawn ssh root@172.30.64.163 expect "login:" send "root\n" expect "password:" send "root\n^M" interact and son.sh: ... (2 Replies)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello - I submitted one background job last night and it completed today morning.I want to know exact time the job completed. I submitted backgroung job like this nohup cp -Rp /opt/apps/prod/proddb/proddata . & I want to know when above job completed on UNIX server.Above command... (9 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts, I need a script advice to schedule 12 jobs ( SAS Codes execute back ground ). Algorithem: 1. Script checks first job. 2. Finds first job is done; invoke second job. 3. finds second job is done; invoke third job. .. Request you to please assist. (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, The HPCs I used earlier used PBS (Portable Batch System) to schedule when I was running various jobs and it had an option to send me an email once a job is completed. I'm wondering whether this is possible for any other process (without the use of PBS). For example, I'm running some codes... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

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