On 5/1/23 08:07, Scott Ribe wrote:
On May 1, 2023, at 7:01 AM, richard coleman <rcoleman.ascentgl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Which, running more than one command from the shell prompt in a single logon session, or not emitting an exit message?
Running multiple long-lived processes in a shell prompt, whose exit values you care about, running in the background,
Exactly. Cron is your friend!!!
along with "a myriad of other commands", presumably short-lived, in the interim, then looking through "the flotsam and jetsam" for a success message. Sounds like a total mess. Put your important long-lived processesin their own sessions. Or, if you must interleave them, wrap the call to pg_dump in a simple conditional.
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