Hi Narenda,
>And then I can schedule that script through cron to run every 15min and if file is available then it will run /script/FTPtansfer.ksh if not it won├в t run the ftp transfer script.
In my opinion, there's no need to have your code in two separate scripts, I would merge these two into a single script which also does the transfer.
pseudo-code:
if [ "file is there" && "file isn't being used" ]
then
"ftp it"
fi
>every time this script will run it sent an automated e-mail and un-necessarily it will fill the inbox with mails even if file is not sent.
This is because cron works this way. If there is any output to stdout or to stderr, it will be mailed to the user. I would redirect the output of the script to a log file. Note that you should use ">>" instead of a single ">", this way you can keep the old logs. So this is the line you should write into the crontab:
1 5 * * * /path/to/myscript 1>>/path/to/mylog 2>>/path/to/mylog
I would add to the upper script a formatting, like this, to keep the log pretty and easily readable:
echo "**************************************"
echo "starting at:"
date
echo "lets do it!"
"action, see above"
echo "finished at:
date
echo "**************************************"
..or something like this. At the moment I don't have access to an HP-UX system, that's why you only got this raw pseudo-code.
Regards,
Viktor
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