Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/24/06 19:16

Paul Lautman wrote:
> Toby Inkster wrote:
>
>>Paul Lautman wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Now I could just include the jobs into the one cron job, but if one
>>>abended for any reason, then the second one wouldn't run.
>>
>>That's not the case.
>>
>>If you run:
>>
>>command 1; command 2; command 3
>>
>>then command 2 will run regardless of whether command 1 was
>>successful or not; and command 3 will run regardless of whether
>>either or both of the previous commands were successful.
>>
>>What you may be thinking of is:
>>
>>command 1 && command 2 && command 3
>>
>>which means only run command 2 if command 1 is successful, and only
>>run command 3 if command 2 is.
>>
>>The third way of stringing together multiple commands into one is:
>>
>>command 1 & command 2 & command 3
>>
>>which will behave more or less the same as the first example, but it
>>will run the commands in parallel instead of in serial.
>
>
> I wasn't aware that I could do that with the commands, but I still don't
> think it'l help. I only have a very simple interface into the cron file. I
> can specify one command only and I suspect that the command length of the
> interfac is restricted.
>
> When I spoke of including the jobs in one, I was meaning running a php
> script with includes in it.
>
> What I'd really like is to have the php script that was run by cron, run
> more scripts whose names it would get from a database table.
>
>

Just set up a shell script to do whatever you commands you want and
execute the shell script. No PHP necessary.


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