scheduler?

[wolves]

Does Unix have any kind of scheduler, or know of a tool of some kind. I have a file that is automatically FTPd to the unix box, and I need a script to run using this file. Trying to get out doing it manually everyday.

Any ideas.

Current rocess is as follows:

1. File is FTP'd to unix box, sometime every morning.
2. Check unix box every afternoon for file, run script when file in directory.
3. FTP back to point of origin.

I would like to automate step 2, but now sure how.

 

[PHV]

man cron
man crontab

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[wolves]

Thanks alot. That was very helpful.

 

[ap1605]

We use the ca7-agent from Computer Assosiates on our Unix boxes with the CA7 scheduler on the mainframe.

 

[mrn]

man at

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

 

[nawlej]

We use the ca7-agent from Computer Assosiates on our Unix boxes with the CA7 scheduler on the mainframe.

CA7 has been obsolete for years, and there is no distributed computing support for it, although agents have been built. BMC's Control M is *supposedly* the replacement, take it for what its worth.

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