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Oct 10, 2001, 8:43 PM
YoYoYoYo
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Build Staggered from command line
I would like to build every 24 hours, automated via cron. But the process sometimes gets killed on my shared server space, something which never happened when building in Links 2.

Is there any way to do a staggered build from the command line?

Oct 11, 2001, 2:16 AM
Eraser
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Oct 11, 2001, 2:16 AM
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Re: [YoYoYoYo] Build Staggered from command line In reply to
Don't think you can do staggered, but use this
command to build "changed" links:

nph-build.cgi --changed

Even better, set cron to run the following script and it will send you a report so you can check if the build went correctly or not. Set script to chmod 700.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$buildoutput = `/path/cgi-bin/admin/nph-build.cgi --changed`;
open (MAIL,"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t");
print MAIL "From: you\@you.com\n";
print MAIL "To: you\@you.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Build Report\n\n";
print MAIL "$buildoutput\n\n";
close (MAIL);

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Eraser: Oct 11, 2001, 2:27 AM
Oct 11, 2001, 8:35 AM
Alex
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Oct 11, 2001, 8:35 AM
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Re: [Eraser] Build Staggered from command line In reply to
I don't think that's neccessary as cron will email you automatically the output of any script.

Cheers,

Alex
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Oct 12, 2001, 1:29 AM
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Oct 12, 2001, 1:29 AM
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> cron will email you automatically the output of any script.

It does. Too often, the output ends with "Killed".

What I am trying now is to pipe the output through grep "All done" to a file. Subsequent cron scripts invoke nph-build.cgi only if the size of this file == 0 kb (ie: the last attempt failed). Not very robust or elegant.