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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help running my script in the backround Post 302583068 by binary-ninja on Monday 19th of December 2011 12:57:06 PM
Old 12-19-2011
Help running my script in the backround
Note: I've tried running this on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine with cron with the @reboot switch and it still doesn't run though it does run when I run it manually.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

while inotifywait -e create /ticker/powerpointshare; do wineserver -k, sleep 5, /scripts/run_script.sh; sleep 10 done

The other script that id like to run at boot is below. Again it runs manually but id like to have it run automatically at boot.

Code:
#! /bin/bash

# Start the newest Powerpoint presentation

# Change Directory to /ticker/powerpointshare
cd /ticker/powerpointshare

# Creates the variable newppt for use in this script
# ls -tr sorts the the ls output and pipes in into tail to grab the newest file 
newslide=$(ls -tr | tail -1)

echo The newest powerpoint presentation is $newslide
cd /ticker/powerpointshare

# We use wine to open the powerpoint presentation  with Powerpoint Viewer 2007
user=cbtg_admin

wine "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\PPTVIEW.EXE" /N '-w C:\powerpointshare\'$newslide


exit

Last edited by binary-ninja; 12-19-2011 at 02:18 PM..
 

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uudemon.cleanu

uudemon(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							uudemon(4)

NAME

       uudemon.admin,  uudemon.cleanu,	uudemon.hour,  uudemon.poll  -	Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool
       directories, reporting status to the system administrator, and routine invocations of the uuxqt and uusched daemons

SYNOPSIS

       These shell scripts reside in the following directory:
	  /usr/lib/uucp

DESCRIPTION

       All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the  scripts,  remove
       the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file.

       This  script  reports  status  to  the system administrator. It issues the uustat command to find out the status of uucp jobs. It mails the
       results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID  (uucpa)	or
       root.  This script cleans up the /var/spool/uucp and /var/spool/uucppublic directories by running the uucleanup command. The uucleanup com-
       mand is run with the following parameters: -C7, -D7, X2, -o2, -W1.  This script runs the uusched and uuxqt daemons in the background.  This
       script  polls  the  systems  listed  in	the  /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file.  The uudemon.poll script should be scheduled before the uudemon.hour
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FILES

       Contains the uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour and uudemon.poll files.  Contains the uucp file.

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