comp.unix.programmer

Re: csh: Execute Unix program at 15 minute intervals From External Source


"basis_consultant_at_hotmail.com"  writes:
>If possible, we would like to trigger a Unix script from SAP that will
>execute another command
>on the hour, 15 minutes past the hour, 30 mins. past the hour, or 45
>minutes past the
>hour, whichever comes first.
...
>I don't think that run_ls.sh  can be setup using cron, as it should
>execute only
>when triggered by SAP.

Two ways. 

You can have cron run a daemon that checks the state of a flag the SAP
would set on or off (possibly in the filesystem?).

Or SAP can run the main script that would reschedule itself to run
again using the 'at' command.



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