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06-08-2011

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If you run it in control-M, you should be able to run it in the desired time frame, without of taking care of the start time inside the script

You could just add at the beginning of your script :

Code:

[[ -f /tmp/flag/MAINTENANCE ]] && exit 1

And before beginning your maintenance :

Code:

touch /tmp/flag/MAINTENANCE

and remove that flag at the end of your maintenance

Otherwise, schedule it in Control-M and before starting your maintenance, freeze it / unschedule it temporary until you get finished with your maintenance.

I don't know Control-M but i am almost 100% sure such kind of scheduler has some option or other ways for calendar based schedule or time frame windows definition/exclusion, that would make possible to set up such a schedule constraints in one way or another.

I think you should investigate on Control-M possibilities at first since those sort of tools have been design to achieve exactly this kind of task.

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

mlmmj-maintd

mlmmj-maintd(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   mlmmj-maintd(1)

NAME

       mlmmj-maintd - maintenance for mlmmj maintained lists

SYNOPSIS

       mlmmj-maintd [-F] [-d | -L] /path/to/dir

       -d: Full path to directory with lists

       -L: Full path to list directory

       -F: Don't fork, performing one maintenance run only.

DESCRIPTION

       This  is  the  program  doing the maintenance for an mlmmj based mailing list. It will unsubscribe people who have bounced for long enough,
       send out bounce probes, resend mails that couldn't be delivered to relayhost, clean out stale requests for e.g. subscription,  resend  list
       mails and clean up leftover files etc.

       If  a directory containing several lists exists, the -d can be used to specify this, making mlmmj-maintd perform a maintenance run in every
       listdir below the specified one.

       Only either -d or -L can be specified at the same time.

       It will run as a daemon, unless the -F switch is specified, in which case it just runs once.  The -F  option should be used when one  wants
       to avoid running another daemon, and use e.g. cron to control it instead. In case cron is used, mlmmj-maintd should be run every 2 hours or
       so. An example crontab entry:

       0 */2 * * * /usr/bin/mlmmj-maintd -F -L /path/to/list

AUTHORS

       This manual page was written by the following persons:

       Soren Boll Overgaard <boll@debian.org> (based on html2man output)

       Mads Martin Jorgensen <mmj@mmj.dk>

mlmmj-maintd							  September 2004						   mlmmj-maintd(1)