cron is an OS background job processor & scheduler and is not supported by IBM U2 Support. PHANTOM verb is a background job processor and is part of IBM U2 and is supported, but of course with no scheduling.
Depends on what you are trying to achieve, I guess. One you're going to get support for from the vendor, the other you use at your own risk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of doug chanco Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 2:55 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] anyone seen this error before? thanks! but I am curious is this a better solution than just using PHANTOM in the shell script? dougc Hona, David S wrote: > Here is Dave Church's solution/workaround to address the long > outstanding UV & cron issue, it's a little C program... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hona, David S > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:02 PM > To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' > Subject: RE: [U2] [UV] Calling Universe from CRON > > I believe that issue is still there...haven't check lately... > > Dave Church wrote & posted this C code on Info-Ardent and in > comp.databases.pick to solve the problem... > > > /* This c routine can be used to start universe processes > in cron or at. Normally only one process can run at a > time because they use the same printer memory segment. > simply replace the 'uv' command with 'uvcron' for example: > uvcron 'BATCH-REPORT1' > dave.mail */ #define UCB 0 /* set to 0 > for System V or 1 for Berkeley */ main (argc, argv, envp) int argc; > char *argv[], *envp[]; { #if UCB > (void)setpgrp(0,getpid()); > #else > (void)setpgrp(); > #endif > /* CHANGE PATH TO MATCH YOUR INSTALLATION */ > (void)execve("/u1/uv/bin/uv",argv,envp); > /* We should never come back here */ > printf("exec failed \n"); > exit(-1); > > > > } ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
