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From: ross@mscf.med.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: QUEUE checking for hourly SKIM
Message-ID: <34@mscf.med.upenn.edu>
Date: 14 Jul 89 09:34:24 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Med School Computer Facility
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	We ran into the following problem yesterday.  We have a batch job
called HOURLY.COM which runs every hour to SKIM.  The first line of 
HOURLY.COM is a SUBMIT commmand to resubmit HOURLY at time+1 hr.  The problem
occured when the server that we access went down and the first hourly job was
not completed when the second one started running.  Then in a short time we
had 3 of these hourly jobs running at once.
	Does anybody know an easy way to modify the com file so that it can
dectect if another HOURLY job is still executing and if so, how to resubmit
the next job for a later time?
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			--- Andy Ross ---
                    University of Pennsylvania
		 Medical School Computer Facility