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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Crontab query !! Post 302790301 by mohtashims on Friday 5th of April 2013 06:26:46 AM
Old 04-05-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by PikK45
Show how the cronjobs are scheduled in the first place. Your query is vague and explains only ur need. We need to know more details to help you.
00 11 * * * /home/ramesh/bin/connectdb1.sh
00 11 * * * /home/ramesh/bin/connectdb2.sh
00 11 * * * /home/ramesh/bin/connectdb3.sh
00 13 * * * /home/ramesh/bin/calculate.sh

calculate.sh should run only if first three cronjobs are successully executed else an email saying "Error in cronjob execution." should be triggered.

---------- Post updated at 05:26 AM ---------- Previous update was at 05:23 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by balajesuri
A crude way: Maintain a file that tells if the three cronjobs ran successfully or not. Have each of the three scripts write a success or failure value in this file. In the 4th script, read this file and check if there are three success values. If yes, then run the script, else don't.
The 4th script in a cronjob. How can I stop its execution upon failure ?

Are you saying let the 4th cronjob also run, read the value about failure in that file and self terminate itself ?
 

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NAME

       pppoe-stop - Shell script to shut down a PPPoE link

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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