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Thxs, as Franz suggested, I have built a "shell" around my crontab. another solution would have been to install vim. Cheers René

Hi All, last night a cronjob I had scheduled the day before didn't run. Because I log all changes made in the crontabs (every minute I save the crontab if it differs from the last one), I found out that a collegue also updated the crontab about the same time, but took longer to finish updating...

Hi All, we are running MySQL 3.23 on solaris. The errorlog (<hostname>.err)is growing like hell. Is there a way to reduce the size of this error-log without shutting down mysql? All the time mysql has a lock on this file. René

Thx jamisar, no offense in me commenting the script, I thought I might have been way to deep into my problem. The only thing I wanted to know if there is a single UNIX-command to check filedates. Luckely I can cut & paste and try your solution !!

well jamisar, just as this forum is named it is a UNIX-korn-shell script on solaris ;-) to be more precise, with comments now: if [ -a /mypath/myflag ] # does myflag exist then # if so, check if it was created within the last 24 hours check=`find...

For our database-saves we use flags to check if a save is already running. Lately we had some problems with saves hanging for multiple days without us noticing; we have more than 100 DB to save and monitor. I was thinking how to check the flags date and couldn't come up with a swift solution...

Mallik, try this : (cat <message> ; cat <filename>| uuencode <filename> )| mailx -s&quot;<subject>&quot; <mail address> Cheers René