One example of using a flag, or lock file.
A good place to put such a file is the /tmp directory. The cleanup function should ensure that the file is deleted on exit, so you don't have to remember to put
everywhere you exit the program. Putting the PID in the file and then checking whether the process exists is optional, and there in case the program exits abnormally, leaving the file in place.
Hey guys,
I'm writing a monitoring program that reads the pattern and the max and min number of instances of a process and then proceeds to parse the currently running processes for the pattern.
I just want to know how I should go about this. I'll give you an idea of the flow of the program:... (7 Replies)
I have a script that runs continuously and will deliver a file to multiple servers via scp. On occasions one of the scp's will hang and as a result not complete in sending the remaining files and not loop around again.
If I run the scp commands with a & they'll complete, but I want to make sure... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to establish a procedure that will start an application in background each time my remote Solaris server is (re)started. This would be a kind of daemon. I am no sysadmin expert, so I am looking for pointers.
How should I proceed? What are the main steps?
Thanks,
JVerstry (9 Replies)
I have a script something like this:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
CLASSPATH=/apps/opt/db2udb/admin/db2bdt/sqllib/java/db2java.zip:/apps/opt/db2udb/admin/db2bdt/sqllib/java/db2jcc.jar:/apps/opt/db2udb/admin/db2bdt/sqllib/function:$CLASSPATH
export CLASSPATH
... (7 Replies)
Hi can anybody help me regarding this..
i want know the output of ps -ef with explanation.
how can we know the running processess.
this is the output of ps -elf
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD
19 T root 0 0 0 0 SY ... (1 Reply)
so i've been using this a lot in a lot of my scripts:
( columnA & columnAPID=$! & columnB & columnBPID=$! & columnC & columnCPID=$! &) &
wait ${columnAPID}
wait ${columnBPID}
wait ${columnCPID}
It seems to work as ive seen it dramatically reduce run time of my scripts.
however, i'm... (5 Replies)
Hi All
I have been asked to write scripts within our monitoring tool for a vast requirement set.
One of the requirements is below:
• Lowest, Highest & Average response times of the Documentum process threads serving client requests
Essentially they want a view where we can see the... (4 Replies)