stop script after 5 min.

memmy · 11-30-2011, 01:11 AM

hello
i have Oracle APPS installed on AIX 6.1 machine.
i need to make script runs before shutdown to stop oracle apps server automatically.
i know that i can write my stop script in /etc/rc.shutdown but i want this script stop if it take more than 4 minutes.
any command can do that
i tried sleep but didn't work for me the shutdown process still wait for the rc.shutdown script finished
i need to know how to stop the script after specific time even the script didn't completed successfully.

Thanks and Best regards,

0rphu · 11-30-2011, 03:20 AM

Hi,

try placing the script somewhere else and just execute it in the background from within the rc.shutdown, put sleep in rc.shutdown after that.

something like

Code:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
print "script1 started"
/root/script2 &
sleep 30
print "script 1 ended"

Disillusionist · 12-04-2011, 06:36 AM

Assuming your shutdown process is something like:

Code:

$ORACLE_HOME/opmn/bin/opmnctl stopall
echo "shutdown"|sqlplus '/ as sysdba'
lsnrctl stop

Have you tried running the script outside of the server shutdown process? Where does it get stuck?

This script would need to run as the oracle account, server shutdown scripts will run as root so that may be part of the issue.

David the H. · 12-04-2011, 07:47 AM

The gnu coreutils include an application called timeout that will stop a process (or send it a user-defined signal) after a set length of time. There's also a separate project called timelimit that works similarly.

memmy · 12-04-2011, 11:22 PM

thanks alot guys for your help.
it works for me.
I used sleep command and works fine. you must put your stop script on another place.