pl correct me for a better solution if this one is not a suggested one.
Generally, there are usually lots of functional and non-functional ways to do something. That non-functional ways are to be avoided is obvious, but less obvious is that some functional ways should be avoided too.
If you know that going from A to B in a direct way means having to pass the traffic jam at C this makes the direct rooute less desirable and maybe the route over D E and F better overall, despite the route over C still being "functional" as it finally will get you where you want to go.
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Originally Posted by nanz143
2nd point. Thanks for pointing, even i forgot about this, and yes every week it should check for 3 times only then it should, so for every first run number file should be reset.
can you or wise cracker help me updating this script.
No problem. Here is how i would do it:
Notice, that illegitimate attempts on non-Sundays will not affect the attempts-log because the script terminates before even checking that.
The script relies on the fact that two consecutive Sundays will not have the same day of month. It could be fooled, though, if sufficient time between two attempts to run it would pass so that Sunday falls on the same day of month than the Sunday of the last attempt.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
Last edited by bakunin; 06-23-2014 at 03:52 PM..
Reason: corrected typo
Understood wisecracker once the script ends Counter goes to 3 which will reset to 1 .
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Thanks bakunin...
Am understanding this.. will test this also and get back to you. .
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Hey wise cracker,
I tried the way you gave but when i run the script multiple times it is not giving me any error.........
it is just simply running,
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Hey bakunin,
I tried your script, every thing was good, but wc -l was giving me the count and the file name as below and was givng error even for the first time...
yes I have removed exit 0 and tried, it worked, but forget to tell you... sorry for that.. but still this script will send an email for the consecutive successful run following weeks.
Like.
1st week, 1strun : No mail
2nd Week, 1st run : No Mail
3rd Week, 1st run: No Mail
4th Week 1st run: You will receive mail.
This is a risk for me,. we need to update the counter every day.
So i havemade few changes.
This is working for me as expected.
Now both the scripts are working fine, I am confused which to use now.
Thank you once again wisecracker and bakunin....
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Last edited by Don Cragun; 06-24-2014 at 05:32 AM..
Reason: Fix tags.
yes I have removed exit 0 and tried, it worked, but forget to tell you... sorry for that.. but still this script will send an email for the consecutive successful run following weeks.
Like.
1st week, 1strun : No mail
2nd Week, 1st run : No Mail
3rd Week, 1st run: No Mail
4th Week 1st run: You will receive mail.
This is a risk for me,. we need to update the counter every day.
So i havemade few changes.
This is working for me as expected.
Now both the scripts are working fine, I am confused which to use now.
Thank you once again wisecracker and bakunin....
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Please use CODE tags (not ICODE tags) when displaying multi-line code segments.
I am VERY surprised that this is working for you as expected.
The code you have above never reads n from /tmp/number, so the command shown in red above always sets n to 1. And, both lines in green write a partial line containing 1 with no terminating <newline> character to /tmp/number. And, the test shown in blue always compares 1 to 3 so you will never send mail (even if the comment "Do your email send here..." is changed to code that actually sends email).
Furthermore, n is incremented whether or not the code that replaces "Do lots of tasks here!" succeeds or fails. So, if you were reading x (instead of always setting it to 1), you would always send mail on the 3rd week, and despite the echo saying "Counter reset to 1 and email sent...", there is no code here that will reset n to 1 before the script exits with exit code 2.
If this is working as expected, I guess I don't understand what your script is supposed to do.
This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
Hi don...
This is only part of the code....my actual requirement is
If my codes in do lot of tasks runs successfully during its first 3 times ( using nretrys 3 ) counter should automatically set to 1 and redirect to /tmp/number. And n will take input from /tmp/number at starting of this script. . Which is not mentioned here...
I have tested with dummy code in got the result. . Have to check with my original code during weekends.
Please suggest for modifications. ..
Thanks in advance. .
If script fails for the 3rd time also it should send an email and reset the counter to 1 and exit from the script.
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