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Old 09-30-2008
How to schedule a job in shell scripting.
Hi all

I have made a shell script to check jobs' status and send an alert based on the result. I want to run this script to run every 4 hours and I don't have access to cron.

Can we schedule using shell scripting instead of cron facility?
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Old 09-30-2008
man at
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Old 09-30-2008
making a infinite loop that sleeps for 4hs and reuns other script is not a solution. the supervisor script might just die and you will end up at the begining
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