Re: cron script for housekeeping and running WebCatalog?
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1999
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 25711
interpreted = N
texte = Grant,I am not an expert in anything here, but when I made a plea for a script to keep webcat up on Linux, Clement Ross kindly provided me with these 2 emails. I understand little of them, but my Linux server admin installed no problem and I see for myself that if I crash webcat it reboots within a couple minutes or less :-) If these do not work with OSX, then I just displayed the depth of my ignorance... sorry.As for the shopping carts that won't delete... I had a site (on mac/web*) that used a [purchase] tag which did create the order file in the Orders folder, but did not dump the dupe in the ShoppingCarts folder so I just used [DELETEFILE file=ShoppingCarts/[cart]] ..In case you situation is similar.Enjoy your break!-John******Here is what I do. In the /etc/cron.daily directory I have a script with the following content:#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/WebCatalogCtl restartThe script name is not important. I run RH6.1 which installs a crontab that runs any script in /etc/cron.daily everyday at around 4AM.WebCatalogCtl uses kill -2 which is normally catch by the application so that it can terminate gracefully, but, better safe than sorry and make sure your databases are commited.I also have a modified WebCatalogCtl script that runs every minute also with cron. The only modif I made was removing the WebCatalog already running message so that I don't get emailed everytime the script is run.WebCat crashing 4 times in the last 2 weeks has prompted me to do those scripts. Clem.***** I typed that e-mail just after I did the scripts. A couple of hours later, WC crashed and the script that runs every minute did it's thing. But, Apache was still confused and could not talk to WC so I added a line to restart the web server as well (it takes 2-3 sec. so what the heck!).So here is part of the modified WebCatalogCtl i run every minute:case $1 in 'start') if [ $RUNNING -eq 0 ]; then if [ -f $WEB/WebCatalog ]; then cd $WEB $WEB/WebCatalog& /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpsd restart echo $WEB/WebCatalog is started else echo $WEB/WebCatalog is not exist fi fi exit 0 ;; Enjoy!Clem. Grant Hulbert wrote:> Hello unix and OSX experts! > > I am about to head out on vacation (my first in 5 years; one of the > perks of being a larger corporation now), and one of my customers is > having two problems with OSX WebCatalog. > > 1) Shopping carts in one store are building up and never deleting > 2) WebCatalog occasionally quits > > Since I am no expert in unix, and my unix engineer is out on family > leave, I'm asking those experts on this list to help me out. Can you > recommend a script (perhaps cron) that will solve these 2 problems? > Obivously we want to fix any bugs that might be involved, but in the > meantime we're looking for workarounds. > > Thanks in advance; you guys are the best! > > Grant Hulbert , Director of R & D ********************************** > Smith Micro, Internet Solutions Div | Formerly, Pacific Coast Software > 16855 West Bernardo Drive | ------------------------- > Suite 380 | eCommerce (WebCatalog) > San Diego, CA 92127 | Software & Site Development > 858.675.1106 | http://www.smithmicro.com > 858.675.0372 (fax) ********************************** > > ############################################################# > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list
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Grant,I am not an expert in anything here, but when I made a plea for a script to keep webcat up on Linux, Clement Ross kindly provided me with these 2 emails. I understand little of them, but my Linux server admin installed no problem and I see for myself that if I crash webcat it reboots within a couple minutes or less :-) If these do not work with OSX, then I just displayed the depth of my ignorance... sorry.As for the shopping carts that won't delete... I had a site (on mac/web*) that used a [purchase] tag which did create the order file in the Orders folder, but did not dump the dupe in the ShoppingCarts folder so I just used [DELETEFILE file=ShoppingCarts/[cart]] ..In case you situation is similar.Enjoy your break!-John******Here is what I do. In the /etc/cron.daily directory I have a script with the following content:#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/WebCatalogCtl restartThe script name is not important. I run RH6.1 which installs a crontab that runs any script in /etc/cron.daily everyday at around 4AM.WebCatalogCtl uses kill -2 which is normally catch by the application so that it can terminate gracefully, but, better safe than sorry and make sure your databases are commited.I also have a modified WebCatalogCtl script that runs every minute also with cron. The only modif I made was removing the WebCatalog already running message so that I don't get emailed everytime the script is run.WebCat crashing 4 times in the last 2 weeks has prompted me to do those scripts. Clem.***** I typed that e-mail just after I did the scripts. A couple of hours later, WC crashed and the script that runs every minute did it's thing. But, Apache was still confused and could not talk to WC so I added a line to restart the web server as well (it takes 2-3 sec. so what the heck!).So here is part of the modified WebCatalogCtl i run every minute:case $1 in 'start') if [ $RUNNING -eq 0 ]; then if [ -f $WEB/WebCatalog ]; then cd $WEB $WEB/WebCatalog& /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpsd restart echo $WEB/WebCatalog is started else echo $WEB/WebCatalog is not exist fi fi exit 0 ;; Enjoy!Clem. Grant Hulbert wrote:> Hello unix and OSX experts! > > I am about to head out on vacation (my first in 5 years; one of the > perks of being a larger corporation now), and one of my customers is > having two problems with OSX WebCatalog. > > 1) Shopping carts in one store are building up and never deleting > 2) WebCatalog occasionally quits > > Since I am no expert in unix, and my unix engineer is out on family > leave, I'm asking those experts on this list to help me out. Can you > recommend a script (perhaps cron) that will solve these 2 problems? > Obivously we want to fix any bugs that might be involved, but in the > meantime we're looking for workarounds. > > Thanks in advance; you guys are the best! > > Grant Hulbert , Director of R & D ********************************** > Smith Micro, Internet Solutions Div | Formerly, Pacific Coast Software > 16855 West Bernardo Drive | ------------------------- > Suite 380 | eCommerce (WebCatalog) > San Diego, CA 92127 | Software & Site Development > 858.675.1106 | http://www.smithmicro.com > 858.675.0372 (fax) ********************************** > > ############################################################# > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to > Send administrative queries to ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to Send administrative queries to
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