Try having the CRON perform a Phantom command. So, your UV "batch job" would
be "PHANTOM JOBNAME".

Also, don't allow multiple jobs to kick off at the same time, schedule at
least 1 min between jobs and you should be right.

Cheers,

Ray D
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Dzikiewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U2 Users Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:00 PM
Subject: RE: Unique user id


> I'm not sure how to get the user number unique.  I do know that the pid is
> always unique.  Is it that you are up against the ol 'at /cron' can only
> have one thing running at a time ?  If that's it then you may have to do
> some work.  What we do here is we have a phantom running as a job.monitor,
> which process all of our batch jobs.  With this there is a whole system of
> commands (SUBMIT.JOB, CANCEL.JOB, etc...).  We have our cron / at jobs log
> in quick and do a SUBMIT.JOB myjob.  This way the cron process works for a
> second.  It basically tells the 'other guy' to do the work.  We have been
> successful with this.
>
> Anthony Dzikiewicz
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  On
> Behalf Of Drew Henderson
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 1:24 PM
> To: U2 Users Discussion List
> Subject: Unique user id
>
> Hey gang,
>
> We've moved to a RH Linux platform from an HP-UX box, and have started
> using the
> "at" subsystem for running batch jobs.....we've run into a problem with
> the jobs all having
> the same user number.......any suggestions about how to get these to be
> unique?
>
> Thanks,
> Drew
>
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