[ale] sometimes I hate bash

[Jim Kinney]

it's a user cron.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:

> If this is going into /etc/crontab as opposed to a user's own crontab
> (including root's), there needs to be a username specced before the path.
>
> Jim Kinney wrote:
> > 2 8 * * * /home/user/bin/scriptname
> >
> > same incarnation works with a different script in the same directory
> > but has no database work to do.
> >
> > BTW: <esc>wq won't email in gmail as I just tried and discovered
> > (without a vi plugin I saw)
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:00 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net
> > <mailto:jknapka at kneuro.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Post the crontab line, please?
> >
> >     On 12/16/2009 4:49 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >     > script runs all hunky-dorey in userland.
> >     >
> >     > so time to put it into cron. To cover my bases for inferior cron
> >     > environemnt, the first thing the script does is .
> >     ~/.bash_profile which
> >     > in turn runs ~/.bash_rc which runs /etc/bashrc
> >     >
> >     > So it now looks just like a login env.
> >     >
> >     > maybe...
> >     >
> >     > Except somehow it now spawns _2_ copies of the running process
> >     and the
> >     > race is on! <insert appropriate swearing here>
> >     >
> >     > Since it's highly sequence dependent data processing and database
> >     > insertion and database processing, multiple out of order steps
> >     is very,
> >     > VERY bad.
> >     >
> >     > Solution: make the first line a -f test for a pid file and exit
> >     if it
> >     > exists. The second line writes the pid file. Shouldn't have to
> >     do this...
> >     >
> >     > Still totally stumped on the multiple simultaneous processes.
> >     >
> >     > --
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> >     > James P. Kinney III
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James P. Kinney III
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