at and batch jobs

[Kris_5]

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

[Santosh Nair_1]

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

[Robin Wakefield · Accepted solution]

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.

[Roger Baptiste]

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

[A. Clay Stephenson]

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

[Kris_5]

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

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Kris,

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

Rgds, Robin