1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

can anybody explain the usage of CRON for adding a cron job. please provide an example also for better understanding !!! Thanks (1 Reply)

2. Solaris

I run cron in solaris 10 zone. One cron job which syncing files to nfs mounted on container, creates after finishing another cron proccess(/usr/sbin/cron), and after 100 existing cron proccesses next cron job will not start. It's too weird for me, I'm not able to solve this problem. Theoretically... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, we have thousands of autosys jobs scheduled. I want a common job or script to be triggered if any of the autosys job fails? Now, obviously i cannot have a new autosys job with condition as failure of each of 1000s of jobs. Is there an autosys script/job that invokes when any job fails and a... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

The crontab entry looks like this... 29 13 * * * /usr/bin/mk-find --printf "%D\ %N\n" | This is just a part of a long statement that has apostrophe in it. I will like to know why does it work at command prompt but fail if set as cronjob? The error is... /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

We need to configure autosys that when a job fails continously for 3 times, we need to call another job. Is this possible in Autosys, or can anyone advice on the alternative. (2 Replies)

6. Solaris

Hi Folks, I have Solaris 10, latest release. We have passwd aging set in /etc/defalut/passwd. I have an account that passwd should never expire. Acheived by emptying associated users shadow file entries for passwd aging. When I reset the users passwd using passwd command, it re enables... (3 Replies)

7. Solaris

Hi , I have removed a cron for particular user , but cron job seems to be running even after the cron entry is removed. The purpose of the cron was to sendmail to user ( it uses mailx utility ) I have restarted cron and sendmail service still user is getting mail alerts from the cron job. And... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a requirement to write a shell script,that will check the all commented job in cron job.Please help !! (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I'm having an issue with a script i wrote to pull information from the Amazon AWS API. Basically the script takes arguments from the command line and attempts to grab user information for each AWS access group. The command is issued like this: # sh awsReport.sh <outputFileName>... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, 1) If some job supposed to run on 1st of every month at 7 AM In cron job when we have a blackout on the 1st ( i.e when 1st falls on a sunday ) how can we make the job run the next business day? 2) How can we run a job on 25th of every quarter 7 AM(jan,apr,jul,oct) And if 25th... (5 Replies)