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Re: Crontab - HA

From: Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:47:04 -0700
Message-ID: <42B81A58.3010506@pacbell.net>


I'm happy to report that the author of the script recently replied and has updated the source at the web site shown, in case anyone downloaded this. Thanks.

-Mark Bole

Madhu R. Vajrala wrote:

> Thank You very much, probably this is the solution that i am looking
> for.
> 
> Great day,
> Madhu
> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 08:42 -0700, Mark Bole wrote:
> 

>>Perhaps best to use DBMS_SCHEDULER if you are on 10g.
>>
>>A very good solution specifically for your situation (VCS) is here:
>>
>>http://www.vxideas.org/cron-edit
>>
>>This shell script is designed to be a resource in your VCS group. I
>>used it for several years in a production cluster -- both a primary and
>>a logical standby database, each with its own set of associated cron
>>jobs, and this tool handled them both, whether running together on one
>>node or separately on different nodes -- the correct cron jobs always
>>ran exactly where they were supposed to, nowhere else. No need to
>>clutter up your crontab entries themselves with some ugly if-then logic.
>>
>>Unfortunately there was one small bug in the script, which is fixed by
>>commenting out one line in the script as shown here. I sent the fix to
>>the author but never got a response. :-(
>>
>>add_entry() {
>># this next line was a bug, un-doing what remove_entry did
>># cp $before $after
>>
>>

>
>
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