RE: [Perl-unix-users] How to make a job dependent on another

2002-02-12 Thread BWilson
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

RE: [Perl-unix-users] How to make a job dependent on another

2002-02-12 Thread Thomas_M
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

RE: [Perl-unix-users] How to make a job dependent on another

2002-02-12 Thread Steve Aaron
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