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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Multiple scripts in one single script - crontab Post 302995513 by nms on Thursday 6th of April 2017 04:33:35 PM
Old 04-06-2017
Multiple scripts in one single script - crontab
Hello all,
Hope all's well.

i'm not sure if this is possible but i have some scripts running in a crontab with different intervals, 1min, 5 min, etc.

As for a "cleaner" and better control of these scripts (as by time we will have hundred's of scripts used for the same purpose, i.e for Nagios monitoring), i was wondering if these scripts can be integrated in a master script, let's say we call it Master_cron.sh.
This master script will run every minute but, here's my dilemma, the scripts inside will still need to run with different time intervals. Do you think this can be achieved somehow?
i was thinking maybe i can use the date/time command
Code:
date +%T

to set the script to run in intervals, but am not sure i'm in the right track.

Was thinking maybe i can use an indefinite loop something like:
Code:
while sleep 1m
do
    script 1 running every 1 minute, script 2 running every 1 min, etc.
    ....
done
while sleep 5m
do
    script 1 running every 5 minuts, script 2 running every 5 min, etc.
    ....
done

For using the while am not sure if the above is a correct syntax

Note that of course i need to be careful since these scripts run in the root cron, so i cannot overwrite the root cron. The OS is Solaris 10.

Thanks in advance.
Last edited by nms; 04-06-2017 at 05:38 PM..
 

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uudemon

uudemon(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							uudemon(4)

NAME

       uudemon.admin,  uudemon.cleanu,	uudemon.hour,  uudemon.poll  -	Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool
       directories, reporting status to the system administrator, and routine invocations of the uuxqt and uusched daemons

SYNOPSIS

       These shell scripts reside in the following directory:
	  /usr/lib/uucp

DESCRIPTION

       All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the  scripts,  remove
       the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file.

       This  script  reports  status  to  the system administrator. It issues the uustat command to find out the status of uucp jobs. It mails the
       results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID  (uucpa)	or
       root.  This script cleans up the /var/spool/uucp and /var/spool/uucppublic directories by running the uucleanup command. The uucleanup com-
       mand is run with the following parameters: -C7, -D7, X2, -o2, -W1.  This script runs the uusched and uuxqt daemons in the background.  This
       script  polls  the  systems  listed  in	the  /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file.  The uudemon.poll script should be scheduled before the uudemon.hour
       script. This allows uudemon.poll to create any command files before cron runs the uudemon.hour script.

FILES

       Contains the uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour and uudemon.poll files.  Contains the uucp file.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: cron(8), uucleanup(8), uusched(8), uuxqt(1)

       Files: /usr/lib/uucp delim off

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