Assuming that you have good reason to keep your job2 separate from job1
(maybe you don't own job1 and the
owner doesn't want you piggybacking on it), perhaps job1 could create a
trigger file for your job2.
Set your job2 in cron to run every hour (or whatever). The first thing you
do is look for
AITHA, BHEEMSEN (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I want to make my perl script job to be dependent on a
> particular cron job. How do I do that ?
What do you mean by dependent? Run immediately after the execution of a cron
job? You can add your script to the same crontab as the existi
Title: RE: [Perl-unix-users] How to make a job dependent on another
Bheem,
one fairly simple way would be to run the current cron job from a script that runs the job followed by your perl script. Then modify cron to run your script instead of the current job.
Confused?
Assuming your