[ale] crontab: script is hanging

[Zyman, Andy]

Jonathan,
Don't know. i have whole bunch of other scripts, like cold backup, analyze
etc. non of them specify exit explicitly.....
still in the dark...
AZ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Glass [mailto:jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:36 AM
> To: Zyman, Andy
> Subject: Re: [ale] crontab: script is hanging
> 
> 
> At 09:59 AM 7/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Morning gentlemen,
> >the following script is hanging then I'm running it from cron.
> >The weird part - it executes all statements without any 
> problems. I can see
> >"DONE" in the log file. but somehow it is not exiting - i 
> can see that i
> >still have this process....
> >I tested it from "unix prompt" it is working without any problems.
> >crontab -l:
> >59 20 * * 1-5 /oracle/work/bin/bounce.sh stop rivr | tee
> >/oracle/work/bin/log/bounce_stop_rivr.log
> >00 01 * * 2-6 /oracle/work/bin/bounce.sh start rivr | tee
> >/oracle/work/bin/log/bounce_start_rivr.log
> >
> >ls -l /oracle/work/bin/log/bounce_*
> >
> >-rw-r--r--   1 oraowner dba         2076 Jul 24 01:00
> >/oracle/work/bin/log/bounce_start_rivr.log
> >-rw-r--r--   1 oraowner dba          705 Jul 23 21:00
> >/oracle/work/bin/log/bounce_stop_rivr.log
> >
> >more /oracle/work/bin/log/bounce_start_rivr.log //last 10 lines:
> >$ tail -10 /oracle/work/bin/log/bounce_start_rivr.log
> >Total System Global Area                        679362064 bytes
> >Fixed Size                                          48656 bytes
> >Variable Size                                   183681024 bytes
> >Database Buffers                                491520000 bytes
> >Redo Buffers                                      4112384 bytes
> >Database mounted.
> >Database opened.
> >SVRMGR> SVRMGR>
> >Server Manager complete.
> >                                               DONE
> >$
> >
> >here is last part of the script:
> >
> >----------------begin -----------------------
> >svrmgrl << EOF
> >connect internal
> >$DO
> >
> >EOF
> >
> >if [ "$STATUS" -eq "`ps -ef | grep pmon | grep -c 
> $ORACLE_SID `" ]; then
> >                       echo " \n There are problems during 
> executing svrmgrl"
> >                       echo " Sending email notification to DBA"
> >                       mailx -s "[ ${0##*/} ] Check status 
> of $ORACLE_SID on
> >`hostname`" $DBA << EOF
> >                  Please check log file for script $0 on `hostname`
> >EOF
> >                       echo " Terminating"
> >                       exit 1
> >
> >fi
> >
> >echo "                                              DONE "
> >
> >
> >#DONE
> >---------------- end ------------------------
> >
> >interesting part that it's not hanging when i'm passing "stop" (then
> >$DO=shutdown ). Another thing - maybe it removes (?) the 
> hanging "bounce.sh
> >stop" process and because this is happening in the night i 
> can't see that
> >"stop" was hanging also?
> >Please advise.
> >
> >Thank You
> >  Andy
> >
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> 
> Isn't cron waiting for control to return from this script?  
> Should you run 
> your application in the background (&), since it appears that 
> the script 
> does your error-handling.  I personally create scriptlets 
> (/root/backup-databases.sh), call them and send them to the 
> background (x x 
> x x x /root/backup-databases.sh & 2> /tmp/backup.log).
> 
> Just thinking out loud...
> 
> 
> Jonathan Glass
> Systems Support Specialist II
> Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience/BME
> Georgia Institute of Technology
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> E-mail: jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
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