Task Scheduling

[Corey Edwards]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 10:54 -0700, Ryan Bowman wrote:
> At work we use jboss as our web app server, when we want to deploy new
> code we need to restart jboss, but the optimal time to do so is
> between 1am and 3am. Rather than wake up that early I want to schedule
> the restart to happen automatically, but it doesn't need to happen on
> a regular schedule, just every so often when we have new code to
> launch.
> I'm thinking of writing a script that edits crontab to schedule the
> restart for 1am daily.  I can run that script manually on the days
> that I need to restart jboss, then the following day remove that task
> from cron (or modify the restart script to edit crontab for me).  Is
> there a better way?

Have the script run every night but check for the existence of a file
(say, /etc/jboss.restart). If the file exists, continue and remove the
file when done. Otherwise, simply exit.

        #!/bin/sh
        
        if [ -e /etc/jboss.restart ];
        then
          do real restart
          rm /etc/jboss.restart
        fi

Corey

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