looking scrip which can execute every 5 min without crontab

[pratapvfr]

Hello i have a small scrip i need to execute in a hpux box. i tried to execute with crontab but its having some issue. this hpux box is unix 9 old version.

can some one help me to execute this script every 5 min without without crontab help.

[Dennis Handly]

It is better to fix it so it works in crontab than to use sleep and at(1).
What problems do you have with crontab? Did you remember that your shell environment is limited?

[pratapvfr]

Hello below is the sample scrip. i had saved it in /tmp/scp.txt i need to execute this every 5 min without crontab what changes i should do in this scrip.


h=`service httpd status|awk {'print $3'}`

if [ $h = "stopped" ]
then
service httpd start
fi

[Dennis Handly]

while true; do
h=$(service httpd status | awk '{print $3}')
if [ "$h" = "stopped" ]; then
service httpd start
fi
sleep $(( 5 * 60 ))
done

(Assuming that the calls to service don't take any time.)

[kemo]

adding to Mr. Dennis, run the script using at command. or use nohup before the script name.

e.g
nohup ksh /tmp/scp.txt &