Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!wugate!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: UNOCC07@UNOMA1.BITNET (Dave Caplinger) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: QUEUE checking for hourly SKIM Message-ID: <2753@zeus.unl.edu> Date: 18 Jul 89 02:41:57 GMT References: <2685@zeus.unl.edu> Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: Dave Caplinger Lines: 20 Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was NEWSMGR@UNOMA1 In article <2685@zeus.unl.edu>, ross@MSCF.MED.UPENN.EDU writes: > 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? > > --- Andy Ross --- How about moving the SUBMIT command to the end of the HOURLY.COM? -/ Dave Caplinger /------------------+----------------------------------- Microcomputer Specialist | Internet: unocc07@zeus.unl.edu "Computing and Data Communications" | UUCP: uunet!btni!unocss!dent University of Nebraska at Omaha | Bitnet: UNOCC07@UNOMA1 Omaha, NE 68182 | or dc3a+@andrew.cmu.edu