Just upgraded a RedHat D3 to a newer server and everything is wonderful,
but the sleep command times out immediately.

1. Is there a workaround ?

2. Since this is used to wait until 2:00 AM and then do some batch
processing and then a filesave, perhaps I could set up a cron job to
execute /usr/bin/d3 and log on as a specified user, thus executing my
daily batch job. Can this be done ?


TIA for any and all comments.

What happens when you setup a job to run with the background command?

spam (AT) jefdevco (DOT) com wrote:

spam (AT) jefdevco (DOT) com wrote:
INPUT BTIME
BTIME=ICONV(BTIME)
UNTIL BTIME=TIME() DO
RQM;RQM;RQM;......
REPEAT
(KICK OFF THE PROCESS

If would of course need to be a bit more elegant
to avoid key errors, and traverse days. Have you
contacted RD support?

HTH, Patrick <;=)



--
"Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it.
Right is right, even if no one is doing it." ~ St. Augustine

Commands executed in such a manner are a security risk. Why not use Pick's
scheduler to run the job instead?

<spam (AT) jefdevco (DOT) com> wrote

to get a 40 second delay.
See man sleep for details. If you need to kill/logoff this process start
by
doing !kill -9 444 where 444 is the sleep process as shown in ps.
See man ps for details. You really should find out why sleep isn't working.