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thanks again for your help and i've now got this working.

i'm stuck on a new problem that i am trying to solve. my original plan was to download all the files and process them in a holding...

thanks for the advice Chubler_XL. I made a test script and managed to get someething to work if there was only one file named .USM.


set F=("*.USM")
set BN=`basename $F .USM`
set...

Hi.

I am new to scripting and could really do with some advice on the best way to put a script together. Here is the scenario I am working to;

- i will get files via ftp to a tmp directory on...

i made some changes and it appears to be working now so it may be of help to someone out there;
#!/bin/csh
set DATE=`date +%d%m%y`
set TIME=`date +%H%M`
set RECIPIENT="test@test.co.uk"

while...

hi again. i'm afraid it still doesn't work. I'm thinking it is because it should be;

while (true)

whereas i am doing;

while (not true)
while ("$DPID" != "")

I've done further tests to...

Hi, thanks for the feedback. I did note the [] brackets in th grep. Here is what I have now.

When I run this it loops but keeps echoing ue_21 is up even when i stop the ue_21 process. I am...

hi danmero,

i was using using the grep below as it only returns something if it finds it. ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep e_1

The grep below returns the process if it is running as well as the...

hi, just to confirm that i started the u_1 process before running these scripts and killed them in a different terminal so that i could monitor what they were doing. they only did echo "e_1 is up"
...

thanks for your help. i'm writing this in csh as i have to use a source command to be able to start a process within a certain environment. all the other scripts on the server are also csh so i'm not...

hi jim.

thanks for your reply. would a better model be?

a loop to check a process is ruuning, if it is then no action, if it isn't then start the process and at that point send an email to say...

Hi,

I got a simple script working to check if a process is running and then email if it is not running anymore. My scenario is that I need to make sure the process is always running so instead of...

I am looking for some guidance to see if this is the most efficient solution.

I have a piece of software that updates a directory every night at 2am. The directory contains xml files so at 2am...

hi,

thanks for the tip. i did make the suggested change and ran the script again but got the following messages;

./cleanoldbackups.sh: line 15: [!: command not found
./cleanoldbackups.sh:...

Hi,

I have a script that works on a unix box but am trying to get it working on a linux box that uses shell. I am not a programmer so this is proving harder than I imagined. I made some changes...