Hi all!

How can i do the following task ,
Actually my task is to check if a file exists in a particular directory
at
7:15 pm every night. This file may or may not be in this directory , so
the
program should repeat this check every 20 minutes. It should stop this
checking at 9:15 pm and send out a pager saying that the file does not
exist in the directory


any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Mark

Hi ,

jus schedule this script to execte daily at 7:15 P.M using crontab.

sleep_time=20
while [ ! -f fileName ]
do
if [ $sleep_time -gt 120 ]
then
echo -n "page me :: "
echo "No mails even after 2 hours"
exit 2
else
sleep_time=`expr $sleep_time + 20`
echo "waiting for 20 more minutes...."
sleep 20m
fi
done


HTH,
bye
Jc

plug in the Paging related command .

Jc