04-18-2013
Quote:
But how if i want it run using a cron job
Just get rid of the nohup, and do not put in background. It will run fine in crontab, unless some other factor. If output is produced, redirect it to /dev/null or a file.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
I have this situation with 3 shellscripts.
One is a "startscript" that simply calls other scripts. This one is scheduled with cron to run at regular intervals. That script runs what I'll refer to as Script 1.
Script 1 in turn runs script 2 (import_catalogs_buyer.sh)
Sometimes, seemingly... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: trailsmoke
2 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello friends,
Kindly help me in developing a script that asks user to enter a value and will wait for 5 seconds for the feedback. If there is no answer from the user the script will perform exit or it will continue doing something else
Ex: If yu have a multi OS system i believe while... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: frozensmilz
3 Replies
3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I need to execute a shell script kept in unix machine from windows. User id, password area available.
For eg.
There's a shell script wich moves all the logs kept in my home directory to a directory named LOGS.
Now i need to get this done through windows; either using a batch file, or java... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: rajneesh_kapoor
4 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear,
I have written below code to initiate the log at top of my script.
#Set the log file
LOGFILE=<path>/<filename.log>
exec > $LOGFILE 2>&1
...............
....
...
..
............
echo -e "\n\n Script finished OK " `date "+%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S" ` "\n\n"
exit 0
the logging ends only... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: Imran_Chennai
14 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to capture the output of some commands with the 'script' utility. Normally, I would type 'script /path/to/output/file', then enter commands, then hit ctrl+D to end the 'script' capture. I'm having trouble with it on a server. Upon starting 'script', it exits immediately before I type... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: jalburger
6 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello - I have a script which creates a NIS user on Solaris machine. Before creating the user I check if the user being created laready exists or not using ypmatch and use $? to get the exit code. If a user exists, I get 0, works fine. However when the user is not found, the shell scripts exits by... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: manju--
1 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
My goal is to connect from unix server A to windows server B and call a bat file on windows.
I am able to succeed in remoting to windows and executing a command, the issue i am facing is the shell scrip is exiting without making sure of bat file success.
Can you please help me in... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pxp018
4 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm not sure why but my script quits automatically at the point where unix2dos / dos2unix command is used. :confused::confused::confused:
How do a fix it?
LOG_FILE=MADDY.txt
unix2dos ${LOG_FILE}
exec 2> $LOG_FILE 1>&2
echo ${LOG_FILE}
The script exists after the below... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: machomaddy
3 Replies
9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi
In live system core files are generating frequently. around 10 core files in 30 mins in root file system. which is eating my space very much
below is core file
core.56539
core.78886
core.12302
core.80554
core.20147
I am trying to write a script which should move... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: scriptor
7 Replies
10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Currently i am building a script like based on region parameter it will filter the records in config file and then it will create a text file like ab.txt and it will read the path location in that file and now i need to compare the files name in the config file to files in the path of the config... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: saranath
1 Replies
CRON(8) System Manager's Manual CRON(8)
NAME
cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
SYNOPSIS
cron
DESCRIPTION
Cron should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local. It will return immediately, so you don't need to start it with '&'.
Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron
also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d/ directory, which are in a different format (see crontab(5)). Cron then
wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, checking each command to see if it should be run in the current minute. When execut-
ing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if
such exists).
Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its spool directory's modtime (or the modtime on /etc/crontab) has changed, and if it has,
cron will then examine the modtime on all crontabs and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab
file is modified. Note that the Crontab(1) command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a crontab.
SEE ALSO
crontab(1), crontab(5)
AUTHOR
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
4th Berkeley Distribution 20 December 1993 CRON(8)