How to make job list activate an Aleph service twice a month or once a month Yoel Kortick

Introduction The Aleph job_list from $alephe_tab is designed to work on a weekly basis. It is possible to have the job_list activate a secondary script which will then run the job on either a “every other week” or “once a month“ basis. There are many ways to do this, and here we will show only one way for each frequency.

Run the job and get parameters The first step is to run the desired Aleph service once from GUI and then get desired parameters from $alephe_scratch log file Here we run ret-03

Run the job and get parameters Here we get the parameters of the job ret-03 il-aleph02-19(4) USM50-YOELK>>cd $alephe_scratch il-aleph02-19(4) USM50-YOELK>>grep ^start usm01_p_ret_03.00033 start USM01,wti_library,wti=library, Here we make a simple script which includes a line to run the job (we will soon edit this script) il-aleph02-19(4) USM50-YOELK>>cat /exlibris/users/yoelk/aleph_op_p_ret_03_main csh -f $aleph_proc/p_ret_03 USM01,wti_library,wti=library, > $alephe_scratch/p_ret_03.log.`date '+%Y%m%d.%H%M%S'`

Twice a month - Make variable Now we will make a second script which will contain a variable which will start as “Y” but, as we will see, change back and forth between Y and N every time the job is run. Here is the starting situation of the script. il-aleph02-19(4) USM30-YOELK>>cat /exlibris/users/yoelk/aleph_op_p_ret_03_variable set ran_previous_time = Y If source is done on this file then a parameter will be created “ran_previous_time”

Run the job depending on variable Now we will edit the first script as follows: If the variable “ran_previous_time” = Y then the job will not run, and will change the file “aleph_op_p_ret_03_variable” so that next time “aleph_op_p_ret_03_main” is run the variable will be “N” If the variable “ran_previous_time” = N then the job will run, and will change the file “aleph_op_p_ret_03_variable” so that next time “aleph_op_p_ret_03_main” is run the variable will be “Y”

Run the job depending on variable il-aleph02-19(4) USM30-YOELK>>cat /exlibris/users/yoelk/aleph_op_p_ret_03_main source /exlibris/users/yoelk/aleph_op_p_ret_03_variable if ($ran_previous_time == "Y") then echo "ran_previous_time" is $ran_previous_time echo "job not running because it ran last time" perl -pi -e 's/Y/N/' /exlibris/users/yoelk/aleph_op_p_ret_03_variable endif if ($ran_previous_time == "N") then echo "job running because it did not run last time" csh -f $aleph_proc/p_ret_03 USM01,wti_library,wti=library, > $alephe_scratch/p_ret_03.log.`date '+%Y%m%d.%H%M%S'` perl -pi -e 's/N/Y/' /exlibris/users/yoelk/aleph_op_p_ret_03_variable

Testing the script Now if we run the script then the first time it should not run p_ret_03 and the second time it should run p_ret_03 the third time it should not run p_ret_03 and the fourth time it should run p_ret_03 This will continue indefinitely

Testing the script Did not run Did run Did not run Did run il-aleph02-19(4) USM30-YOELK>>csh -f /exlibris/users/yoelk/aleph_op_p_ret_03_main ran_previous_time is Y job not running because it ran last time il-aleph02-19(4) USM30-YOELK>> ran_previous_time is N job running because it did not run last time Did not run Did run Did not run Did run

Adding the script to job_list Now all that is left to do is add the script to $alephe_tab/job_list for once a week. One week the script will run the ret_03 and the next week it will not. ! 2 3 4 5 6 7 !!-!!!!!!!!-!-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-!!!!!-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-!!!!!! 00 06:00:00 N ret_03.log csh -f /exlibris/users/yoelk/aleph_op_p_ret_03_main

Script for once a month Now we will make a script which will run p_ret_03 once a month, on a particular date every month The script will first check the date of the month and If it is a particular predefined date then ret_03 will run. If it is not a particular predefined date then ret_03 will not run.

Script for once a month There are many date options in UNIX The command man date will show them all We will use date '+%d' which shows the numeric date of the month il-aleph02-19(4) USM30-YOELK>>date '+%d' 13

Script for once a month Here is the script as set to run only if the date is the 04th of the month: il-aleph02-19(4) USM30-YOELK>>cat /exlibris/users/yoelk/aleph_op_p_ret_03_once_a_month set day_of_month = "`date '+%d'`" if ($day_of_month == "04") then echo "Today's date is" $day_of_month echo "p_ret_03 will run" csh -f $aleph_proc/p_ret_03 USM01,wti_library,wti=library, > $alephe_scratch/p_ret_03.log.`date '+%Y%m%d.%H%M%S'` else echo "Today is not the 04th of the month, p_ret_03 will not run" endif When date is 04 script will run When date is not 04 script will not run

Script for once a month Here is what happens when the date is not the 04th of the month: il-aleph02-19(4) USM30-YOELK>>csh -f /exlibris/users/yoelk/aleph_op_p_ret_03_once_a_month Today's date is 13 Today is not the 04th of the month, p_ret_03 will not run Here is what happens when the date is the 04th of the month: il-aleph02-19(4) USM30-YOELK>>csh -f /exlibris/users/yoelk/aleph_op_p_ret_03_once_a_month Today's date is 04 p_ret_03 will run il-aleph02-19(4) USM30-YOELK>> il-aleph02-19(4) USM30-YOELK>>cd $alephe_scratch il-aleph02-19(4) USM30-YOELK>>ls -lrt | tail -1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 aleph exlibris 3874 Jan 04 13:02 p_ret_03.log.20080104.130229

Script for once a month Now all we have to do is add this to job list to run every day. When it is the fourth of the month is will activate ret_03, and when it is not the fourth of the month it will not activate ret_03. ! 2 3 4 5 6 7 !!-!!!!!!!!-!-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-!!!!!-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-!!!!!! W3 06:00:00 N ret_03_month.log csh -f /exlibris/users/yoelk/aleph_op_p_ret_03_once_a_month

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