CRON kit

[Karl Rohwedder]

I was asked to make a CRON kit available and here it is.

I packaged the CRON utility together with some DCL as a PCSI kit. It is tested on VAX and Alpha systems. It should work on IA64, but you have to compile/link it (a BUILD.COM is included).
On VMS version older than V7.3, a relink may be neccessary.

It can be installed under VMS$COMMON or on any other destination. Only the releasenotes are copied onto SYS$HELP (only in german) and an identifier CRON_USER is created.

After downloading it, the file attributes of the PCSI file may have to be reset:

$ set file KR-VMS-CRON-V0103--1.PCSI -
/att=(rfm=fix,mrs=8192,lrl=8192)

regards Kalle

[Karl Rohwedder]

Sorry I forgot to mention, that it should be renamed accordingly...

regards Kalle

[Ian Miller.]

don't forget to send it to Hunter Goatley
http://www.process.com/openvms/index.html
and The Collector of VMS Freeware
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/freeware/cd_guide.html

[Karl Rohwedder]

Perhaps after some other guys have tried it...

regards Kalle

[Galen Tackett]

Kalle, thanks for your contribution to the community. I expect a lot of us will find something like this useful.

Galen

(Too bad there is no way to directly give points to Karl for posting something like this.)

[Antoniov.]

Hi Karl,
should you be interested to Itanium version? I can compile on rx2600 and localize an italian version. See http://it.openvms.org for furthermore details.

Cheers
Antonio

[John T. Farmer]

What is a PCSI kit? I am a developer/analyst on VMS, but have never dealt with installing other software on the system. I'm looking for a simple job scheduler, and most dialog points to CRON (or KRON).

How do you apply this PCSI kit to an Alpha system?

Thanks,

John Farmer
john dot farmer at genworth dot com

[Steven Schweda]

> What is a PCSI kit?

"POLYCENTER Software Installation"

HELP PRODUCT

> How do you apply this PCSI kit to an Alpha
> system?

PRODUCT INSTALL

If you lack the privileges to install a kit
where it was expecting to be put, there exist
options for PRODUCT INSTALL, like
/DESTINATION, which can be helpful.

[Steven Schweda]

Also, for a question like this, it'd make
more sense to start a new topic, and refer to
this one in that one.

[John T. Farmer]

Agreed. I'll post a separate thread to ask for more detail.

Thanks,

John Farmer

[EdgarZamora_1]

Cron works great. Thank you. FYI, I couldn't get the mail option to work until I UNcommented the following three lines:

/* sprintf (logfile, "cron$lib:[LOG]LOG.%05d", sequence);
* strcat (commandline, "/log=");
* strcat (commandline, logfile);
*/

[Karl Rohwedder]

Edgar,

tnx for the hint. We use the standard /LOG feature of SUBMIT and put the logfiles into task specific locations, so I never noticed this one.

regards Kalle