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at and batch jobs

Kris_5 — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:01:06 GMT

Hi Folks,

I have a typical problem in using at
and batch commands. I have a shell
scripts which takes various parameters
as input and I want to submit this
using at or batch. I though to use
cron, but it doesn't allow me to select
a queue. Thanx in adv.

for e.g.

$ at now + 1 minutes
The command failing to recognize the variables -a a, -b b etc.

Kris

Re: at and batch jobs

Santosh Nair_1 — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:15:40 GMT

Try doing the following:

$ at now + 1 minutes
test.sh -a a -b b

where is a carriage return and is a control-d, i.e. end of file.

-Santosh

Re: at and batch jobs

Robin Wakefield — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:16:19 GMT

Hi Kris,

You should run it like this:

echo test.sh -a a -b b | at now + 1 minutes

If you are still seeing problems, are any errors appearing in the user's mailbox?

Rgds, Robin.

Re: at and batch jobs

Roger Baptiste — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:17:21 GMT

Krishna,

How about using the
-f option to specify
the script file in the at
command.
at -f test.sh .....

or how about specifying
the options to the script
as the options to the
at command
at -q a ....
Or

do echo ""test.sh -options"" | at command

HTh
raj

Re: at and batch jobs

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:18:25 GMT

Hi Kris:

I think you will have better success with something like this:

at -f test1.sh now + 1 minutes

test1.sh then invokes test.sh -a a -b b

Re: at and batch jobs

Kris_5 — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:20:47 GMT

Folks,

The following command looks promising.

echo "test.sh -a a -b b"|at now + 1 minutes

In the result

$ at -d 1004109278.a

....
...
cd /opt/ORACLE/oclin/40/dev/aot/admiral
ulimit 4194303
umask 2
test.sh -a a -b b

Looks like it is submitting the job with parameters. Thanks again

Kris

Re: at and batch jobs

Robin Wakefield — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:24:54 GMT

Hi Kris,

You may want to prefix the script filename with ./ in order for it to work 100%.

Rgds, Robin