Hi ,
Im supposed to run two cron jobs ..job1 and job2
The two should execute mutually exclusive...meaning like I dont want "job1" to be executing when "job2" is executing..
The jobs will terminate by themselves if the the other is already executing..

If we schedule these jobs in cron to execute for every 5 mins, one of the jobs never run at all..Because in 5 mins both jobs will start at once...The 2nd in the list will never run at all...

I want the jobs to execute in 5 mins interval..

How this can be done?

Any ideas?

Thanks..

Hi

Why not just let job1 finish before starting job2?

*/5 * * * * job1.sh && job2.sh

The && means only start job2 if job1 didn't return an error code. If you want it to start anyway, use a ; instead.

Ya.THanks Guttorm