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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Odd results when my script runs from cron.. Post 302772667 by Marc G on Tuesday 26th of February 2013 11:27:54 AM
Old 02-26-2013
ok,

First, mirni...
That was my cut and paste error.
The shebang is:
#!/bin/ksh

I just missed it in the cut and paste.

Thanks for pointing that out though!
Marc

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Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
What caught my eye is top running for 6539 minutes i.e. 4,5 days? I guess the piped processes are not lingering but waiting for top to finish?
Yes, that would be an issue on a production box but we are beta testing the script on a test box as they're only considering allowing me to increase my duties.

What caught my eye is not only the continual run of the top, but the differences in how cron seems to be initiating the script.

Either it with a "sh -c" or it is straight out (as seen in the Feb 21 result)

My first thought is that the top is still running because one of the follow on commands manipulating top's output was encountering an issue. But I realized that would not make sense as top is already done before its output can be piped to the next command.

Then I began wondering if there is something that can gum up the pipe so top can't reach it?

Is that possible?

Marc
 

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DwtListBoxSetPos(3Dwt)													    DwtListBoxSetPos(3Dwt)

Name
       DwtListBoxSetPos  -  Makes a specified position (item number in the list) the top visible position in a list box, or as close to the top as
       possible.

Syntax
       void DwtListBoxSetPos(widget, position)
	    Widget widget;
	    int position;

Arguments
       widget	 Specifies the ID of the list box widget whose specified item number in the list you want displayed in the top position.

       position  Specifies the item number in the list displayed in the top position in the list box.

Description
       The DwtListBoxSetPos function makes the specified position (the item number in the list) the top visible position in a list box.  The func-
       tion  determines  which	item in the list box is displayed at the top of the list box, the choice of which is limited by the DwtNitemsCount
       and DwtNvisibleItemsCount attributes to the list box widget.  When DwtNvisibleItemsCount is greater than 1 and  less  than  DwtNitemsCount,
       the list box widget fills the list box with the maximum visible items regardless of the position value.

       For  example,  if  DwtNitemsCount  is  10  and  DwtNvisibleItemsCount is 5, you cannot make item 8 be displayed at the top of the list box.
       Instead, items 6 through 10 would be displayed.	Setting position to 4 would make items 4 through 8 be displayed.  If DwtNvisibleItemsCount
       is 1, you can make any item in the list be displayed at the top of the list box.

See Also
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit: C Language Binding
       Guide to the XUI Toolkit Intrinsics: C Language Binding

															    DwtListBoxSetPos(3Dwt)
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