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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cron: try script 4 times then send mail and stop Post 86998 by bash100 on Wednesday 19th of October 2005 07:06:35 AM
Old 10-19-2005
cron: try script 4 times then send mail and stop
Hi!

I have a simple script i call, and i use CRON to run the script daily between 7 and 8 o'clock. The cron runs 4 times a day between 7 and 8.

The code is simple:

if <script ran successfully>
do something
else
try again later, with the next time cron runs.
BUT If the script failed for the FOURTH time then send mail to admin that this day the script didnt succeed
fi

i am not good at unix or scripting, but ive managed to code everything besides how to gather information that the script has failed four times and its time to send mail. Is this possible by allocating a variable and keeping the state of the variable?

Hopefully there is a easy solution to this problem.

Thanx for your help.
Last edited by bash100; 10-19-2005 at 08:12 AM..
 

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yum-cron

yum-cron(8)															       yum-cron(8)

NAME

       yum-cron - an interface to convieniently call yum from cron

SYNOPSIS

       yum-cron [config-file]

DESCRIPTION

       yum-cron  is  an  alternate  interface to yum that is optimised to be convenient to call from cron.  It provides methods to keep repository
       metadata up to date, and to check for, download, and apply updates.  Rather than accepting many different command line arguments, the  dif-
       ferent functions of yum-cron can be accessed through config files.

       config-file  is	used  to optionally specify the path to the configuration file to use.	If it is not given, the default configuration file
       will be used.  It is useful to be able to specify different configuration files for different use cases.  For  example,	one  configuration
       file  might  be set to update the repository metadata, and a line could be added to the crontab to run yum-cron frequently using this file.
       Then, another configuration file might be set to install updates, and yum-cron could be run from cron using this file just once each day.

FILES

       /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf
       /etc/yum/yum-cron-hourly.conf

SEE ALSO

       yum (8)

AUTHORS

       See the Authors file included with this program.

BUGS

       There of course aren't any bugs, but if you find any, you should email
	the mailing list, yum@lists.baseurl.org, or consult bugzilla.

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