Shell Programming and Scripting

sudo is a utility to become root... so no point... for your culture look at the sudo man pages because you may have to use it one day day in batch mode... e.g. look at " -c" option ...

I finally figured it out.

Cron wont run the restart command if its inside the script, but it will if it is in cron itself. So, I set it up like this

Code:

00 00 * * * /bin/systemctl restart rsyslog.service

and it restarts rsyslog.

Last question. I need the original script to run in this thread to run before the restart. I know I can have the first script run at 11 59 pm and the second script run at midnight (as Cron works in minutes but not seconds), but is there a way to run both at the same time? As in, at 11 59 pm it runs the script, then once the script is complete, restart rsyslog.

Thanks for the help so far,
Steve

Code:

command1; command2

or

Code:

command1 && command2

where command2 runs only if command1 was successful (exit status 0)

So i can put in

Code:

59 23 * * * /usr/sbin/pixmove.sh && /bin/systemctl restart rsyslog.service

This will make pixmove.sh run, and after it finishes correctly, restart rsyslog at 11:59pm. Making sure this is correct.

Steve

Everything worked as intended. Thanks for all the help.