Re: [ilugd] Help required to setup a cron job

2013-03-16 Thread Anoop Sharma 
Check it out: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/045

Summary: Use flock.

"man -s 1 flock" provides examples on usage that may suit you.



On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Satish Kr Malanch  wrote:

> Hello all,
> Can anyone plz help me create a scrropt to run a cron job
>
> , I have schedule fetmail in every 5 minutes. but some time my cron get
> stucked due to another running instance
>
> I want a script that execute in every 3 minutes and check whether fetchmail
> is running or not if running then abort it and re run.
>
> Thanks s
>
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Re: [ilugd] Help required to setup a cron job

2013-03-15 Thread Aman Thakur 
I think Shell Script would be a better optionmake a script and put on
the startup..but you can also make a C daemon for this purpose

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> Hello all,
> Can anyone plz help me create a scrropt to run a cron job
>
> , I have schedule fetmail in every 5 minutes. but some time my cron get
> stucked due to another running instance
>
> I want a script that execute in every 3 minutes and check whether fetchmail
> is running or not if running then abort it and re run.
>
> Thanks s
>
> --
> With Best Regards:
> *Satish Kr Malanch*
> 
> "The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes
> but in having new eyes. "
>
> ------------------
> Visit my Blog by clicking here  <http://sd-malanch.blogspot.in/>
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> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:33:46 +0530
> From: Abhinav Gupta 
> To: Satish Kr Malanch 
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> Subject: Re: [ilugd] Help required to setup a cron job
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> On 03/15/13 11:27:44 AM, Satish Kr Malanch wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > Can anyone plz help me create a scrropt to run a cron job
> >
> > , I have schedule fetmail in every 5 minutes. but some time my cron get
> > stucked due to another running instance
> >
> > I want a script that execute in every 3 minutes and check whether
> fetchmail
> > is running or not if running then abort it and re run.
> >
>
> Try daemontools. - http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
>
> - Abhinav
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Re: [ilugd] Help required to setup a cron job

2013-03-15 Thread Abhinav Gupta 
On 03/15/13 11:27:44 AM, Satish Kr Malanch wrote:
> Hello all,
> Can anyone plz help me create a scrropt to run a cron job
> 
> , I have schedule fetmail in every 5 minutes. but some time my cron get
> stucked due to another running instance
> 
> I want a script that execute in every 3 minutes and check whether fetchmail
> is running or not if running then abort it and re run.
> 

Try daemontools. - http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

- Abhinav

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[ilugd] Help required to setup a cron job

2013-03-14 Thread Satish Kr Malanch 
Hello all,
Can anyone plz help me create a scrropt to run a cron job

, I have schedule fetmail in every 5 minutes. but some time my cron get
stucked due to another running instance

I want a script that execute in every 3 minutes and check whether fetchmail
is running or not if running then abort it and re run.

Thanks s

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