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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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weekly

WEEKLY(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual							 WEEKLY(5)

NAME

     weekly, weekly.conf -- weekly maintenance

DESCRIPTION

     The /etc/weekly script is run, by default, every Saturday morning on a NetBSD system.  The /etc/weekly.conf file specifies which of the stan-
     dard weekly services are performed.

     The variables described below can be set to ``YES'' or ``NO'' in the /etc/weekly.conf file.  The default settings are in the
     /etc/defaults/weekly.conf file.  (Note that you should never edit /etc/defaults/weekly.conf directly, as it is often replaced during system
     upgrades.)

     rebuild_locatedb  This rebuilds the locate(1) database, /var/db/locate.database, which must also exist, in order to be rebuilt.

     rebuild_mandb     This rebuilds the apropos(1) database /var/db/man.db, using makemandb(8) with the -f option.

     rebuild_whatisdb  This rebuilds the whatis(1) database(s).  Note that NetBSD provides a default whatis.db for the system manual pages and
		       this may not be needed.	(Adjust your /etc/man.conf as necessary; see man.conf(5) for details.)

FILES

     /etc/weekly	weekly maintenance script
     /etc/weekly.conf	weekly maintenance configuration
     /etc/weekly.local	local site additions to /etc/weekly

SEE ALSO

     daily.conf(5), monthly.conf(5)

HISTORY

     The /etc/weekly script first appeared in 4.3BSD.  The /etc/weekly.conf configuration file appeared in NetBSD 1.3.

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