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Old 04-23-2009, 02:57 AM   #1
kurianthayil
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Setting Cron - Options


Hi All,

I am using RHEL 5.2 Server with 3 cron jobs enabled and all are relating to RSYNC. Now, all of these scripts are run once in every 7 minutes all day. The problem occurs when the scripts doesn't finish to execute in 7 minutes. This will result in starting execution of the same script again and this will malfunction the setup.

Is there an option in CRON, which always check if CRON has started the process and is already running? Cron should execute the script only if the the process isn't running. Any hints on this?

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Kurian Thayil.
 
Old 04-23-2009, 04:04 AM   #2
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If some of these are taking longer then 7 minutes to complete, is there a chance that 7 minutes isn't long enough? I'm assuming increasing this time isn't an option?
 
Old 04-23-2009, 04:24 AM   #3
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I don't think there is such an option. Why don't you put the rsync call in a script, and start by checking for a lock file, if it doesn't exist, create it, rsync then delete it before exiting.
 
Old 04-23-2009, 05:17 AM   #4
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Hi,

I am aware of this same feature in fcron. So I thought the option is availble in cron and could be enabled/disabled using an keyvalue in its config file. If the feature is not availble in cron then I guess I am left with LOCK file creation and removal during the start and end of Script.

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Kurian Thayil.
 
  


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