10-11-2013
CRON job still running?
Hi All,
I am writing a script that will eventually be executed by a cron job every 15 minutes. I want to make sure that my logic/script doesn't get executed if a previous job is still running. What would be the best way to handle that scenario? I was thinking to make my script create a temporary file once it starts and then remove it at the very end before exit. In this case I can always check if that temp file exist which will mean that the script is still running.
Is there a more elegant way to do this?
Thanks
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