Hi, "Mark Haney" <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Mircea Hutanu wrote: >> On 2/6/07, Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I have been trying for a bit to do something like this in cron: >>> >>> <script1><pause for 60 second>;<script2> >>> >> Why don't you try to put the scripts into one single main script and >> put that main script into cron, for example. >> #!/bin/bash >> /path/to/script1 >> sleep 60s >> /path/to/script2 >> Hope this helps you. >> >> > I'm not sure this will help. Here's the situation: > > script1 - checks for the existence of test.pid > script2 - the job that actually will create the pid > > So if I do what you've suggested above, script1 will run and fail (I'll > get an email saying the PID didn't exist) then 60 seconds later script2 > will run and create the pid. Is that not how the sleep command works? perhaps I do not understand your problem, but this may be a solution: script1: [ -r /tmp/k/pid ] && exit 1 exit 0 script2: touch /tmp/k/pid Call it: script1 && sleep 60 && script2 Michael -- biff4emacsen - A biff-like tool for (X)Emacs http://www.c0t0d0s0.de/biff4emacsen/biff4emacsen.html
