Making sure only one instance of a script is running
so i have a script that takes a while to complete and its cpu intensive. this script is being used by several users. i want to make sure only 1 user can run this script at any given time.
i originally thought of running a while loop to egrep the process table of the PID ($$) of the process, but im not sure if that's going to be efficient. i want to make sure the script does not mistaking someone editing the script as a running process. so im excluding the common editing programs.
im searching for a solution that will be usable across all unix systems. here's what i have tried so far:
Hi,
I am writing a shell script to invoke a C++ program. Before I start the C++ program (oi7loadbalancer), I am checking if the process is already running. I start the process only if it is not already running. I have the following check in my script.
proccount=`ps -f -u $USER_NAME | grep... (8 Replies)
Alright, I think I know what I am doing with sed(which probably means I don't). But I cant figure out how to replace just the first occurance of a string. I have tried sed, ed, and grep but can't seem to figure it out. If you have any suggestions I am open to anything! (3 Replies)
Hi,
PHP user here. I'm using an endless loop to perform to mimic a cron. The script does something every 20 minutes. It sleep()s in the meantime.
I have various checks that ensure that only instance can run, including a "gentleman agreement" locked file.
However, I'd like to make sure... (2 Replies)
Hello.
I have a status command in AIX box, which provides output as below:
$ status
You are running the application on pegasus2
----Program Name------|--Avail / Total---------|
MQ | 1/2 |
ORACLE | 10/10 |
TMADMIN ... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
After reading that the sort command in Linux can be made to use many processor cores just by using a simple script which I found on the internet, I was wondering if I can use similar techniques for programs like the awk and sed?
#!/bin/bash
# Usage: psort filename <chunksize>... (7 Replies)
I have run 10 instances of the process eg, process name is BG
nohup /WP01IRB1_irbapp/IRBWPROD/RB/bin/BG -c 1 -t 23 -a '-caTop TESTBILLCYCLE='5FEB13_81PT19NPT''>a.txt &
nohup /WP01IRB1_irbapp/IRBWPROD/RB/bin/BG -c 2 -t 23 -a '-caTop TESTBILLCYCLE='5FEB13_81PT19NPT''>b.txt &
nohup... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I want to write one program in C in Unix OS which will check the running status of a process time to time. If the process is stopped somehow by any means, it will ensure that the process is restarted and only one copy of the process image should run in memory at any point of time for the user.... (2 Replies)
Hello All,
Greetings !!
I have a query here to all is as follows:
Question: Let's say we are running a script in a UNIX box and we have opened an another session and then made changes in script of some statements NOT to be print some values(just an example) so when I am monitoring the... (5 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have a main_script.sh which runs every day and scheduled in crontab.
in the main script i read data from config file
test.config
apple
mango
orange
main_script.sh
for i in `cat test.config`
do
if
then
echo 'Apple' (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
ignore_user_abort
IGNORE_USER_ABORT(3) 1 IGNORE_USER_ABORT(3)ignore_user_abort - Set whether a client disconnect should abort script executionSYNOPSIS
int ignore_user_abort ([string $value])
DESCRIPTION
Sets whether a client disconnect should cause a script to be aborted.
When running PHP as a command line script, and the script's tty goes away without the script being terminated then the script will die the
next time it tries to write anything, unless $value is set to TRUE
PARAMETERS
o $value
- If set, this function will set the ignore_user_abort ini setting to the given $value. If not, this function will only return the
previous setting without changing it.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the previous setting, as an integer.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
A ignore_user_abort(3) example
<?php
// Ignore user aborts and allow the script
// to run forever
ignore_user_abort(true);
set_time_limit(0);
echo 'Testing connection handling in PHP';
// Run a pointless loop that sometime
// hopefully will make us click away from
// page or click the "Stop" button.
while(1)
{
// Did the connection fail?
if(connection_status() != CONNECTION_NORMAL)
{
break;
}
// Sleep for 10 seconds
sleep(10);
}
// If this is reached, then the 'break'
// was triggered from inside the while loop
// So here we can log, or perform any other tasks
// we need without actually being dependent on the
// browser.
?>
NOTES
PHP will not detect that the user has aborted the connection until an attempt is made to send information to the client. Simply using an
echo statement does not guarantee that information is sent, see flush(3).
SEE ALSO connection_aborted(3), connection_status(3), Connection Handling for a complete description of connection handling in PHP. .
PHP Documentation Group IGNORE_USER_ABORT(3)