On Friday, December 12, 2003, 4:46:04 PM, Bj commented:
B> Anyone who's used cron - is there a problem with scheduling more than one B> job to run at the same time? (more than one entry with 0 0 * * *). Should B> I be staggering the start times? I don't think that it should be for a job that is not too demanding on the processor, but perhaps backing up a large database would be a problem. I use shell scripts when I want to run multiple jobs at the same time. So, for example, I have a cron job like this: # DAILY JOBS: 02 01 * * * $HOME/etc/cron-daily.sh cron-daily.sh has all sorts of jobs listed - it probably runs about 15-20 different jobs, but obviously the computer will run each command in the script in series. It really doesn't take much processing time to run the whole script, but even if it did it wouldn't matter. A shell script simply has to be a simple text file with each command on a different line and permissions set to 755. -Abigail ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
