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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone,
I'm doing a small project for my scripting class using cron and I've come to a point where I can't get the last echo command to work at all. I would like it to create a file in the /watcher folder with the given information and also, just to clarify, print the same time and date from... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: millanboy
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi freinds,
I have tried running a script through cron ,it is a shell script which calls a oracle procedure , problem here is that there is function in sql code which makes a external C call , this function is failing when running manually but works when run manually.
I have trouble shooted... (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can I tell a script to only execute if the other scripts exits successfully?
So "script A" executes and if it executes successfully (0),then "script B" will run
or else
"script A "executes and it exits unsucessfully (1) then "script B" will read return code (1) and will not execute
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: metallica1973
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi...
im quite new in unix
been using it for 2 years
i got a job to monitor error/failure
my question is which is better to do a routine job
crond / shell script
the idea is to put all the command and make it append all the output to a txt/log file
tq in advance (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: zenous
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
I have a script that pulls in a weather feed via FTP then writes the output to a file.
This script is run everyday at 3pm by cron.
Heres the shell script:
#!/bin/sh
HOST='ftp.weatheronline.co.uk'
USER='my username'
PASSWD='my password'... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mpk_3
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I know little about shell scripting and creating a script, and worked fine in the command line. But not work in the cron. Below you could see the script
#!/bin/sh
LOGFILE=/home/transfield/mou/test.log
# Find yesterday Date and copy files
TODAY=$(date --date= +%F)
YESTERDAY=$(date... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: malikp
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey Guys,
i was trying out a shell script which has to remove a file for every 90 mins. this is the code i came up with .
$ crontab -e file1
file1 contains
30 1 * * * * rm -r /folder1/folder2/somefile.txt
Now i need the cron to run for every 90 mins. the problem with this is... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Irishboy24
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Experts,
I have a script defined in Cron which runs every 1 minute.
* * * * * /export/home/myscript.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
Now the issue is executing that myscript.sh sometime will take 2/3 or more minutes to finish execution.
But after 1 minute cron will invoke another... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: thepurple
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9. AIX
Hi,
can we have more than one cron in the shell script? If so pls let me know on what basis it is running. Whether on OS scheduling or the time scheduled in the cron file.Pls answer this query.
Many Thanks (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Yamini Thoppen
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
What are the rules of calling shell scripts in cron.
How do I go about setting up the correct PATHS that calls a script, which then calls another sub script all of which has to retain the orginal PATHS and VARS that I've set up in first script
Confused..
ok
Well Cron calls a script... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: cfoxwell
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