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Old 10-29-2011
Sleep command not sleeping for specified time.
Hi,

I have ascript with a recursive funtion below.

I have mentioned to sleep for 60minutes but it doesnt doing so.

Its keep on running until if /elif conditions satiesfies.

Can you pls help what is wrong here.


Code:
funcstatus ()
{
 if [ $1 = 'FAILED' ]
then
      echo "`date` - Current status of JOB is $1"  | mailx -s "SMS" gaddamja@yyy.com
exit 0;
elif [ $1 = 'SUCCESS' ]
then
echo "`date` - Current status of JOB is $1"  | mailx -s "SMS"  gaddamja@yyy.com  
exit 0;
else
sleep 60m;
   status=`autostatus -j JOB`
   funcstatus $status
fi
}

quick help much appriciated..I need this urgently.
# 2  
Old 10-29-2011
I'm not familiar with ashell, so maybe I'm wrong here, but is 60m an acceptable parameter to sleep? Have you tried using 3600 instead?

It parses and runs fine in Korn shell when 3600 is used.
# 3  
Old 10-30-2011
Thanks for yourt reply.
yes i tried but its still same.
 
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