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| Posted by Niklas, 06-11-2009, 08:55 PM |
| Is it possible to have a cron tab (under unix) check whether FILE1 exists, and if true then execute the first bash/sh script found in FOLDER1? Do you need a separate script to perform this?
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| Posted by AquariusStorage, 06-11-2009, 09:00 PM |
| Last time I checked, a crontab just takes over the work of someone going to a link in a browser say once every 5 minutes all day long to run a script. I think you would need to write the script to where if FILE1 exists, then execute the first bash/sh script found in FOLDER1.
A crontab would simply accomplish running that script say every 5 minutes.
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| Posted by Niklas, 06-11-2009, 09:02 PM |
| That's what I thought, thanks.
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| Posted by RavC, 06-11-2009, 09:15 PM |
| Yep AquariusADMIN is right, make a cron entry to run a script. The script you want to write is pretty simple and may look at bit like this:
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