Re: Running unix shell script from remote java app

mwmann wrote:
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The reason for the the java app is 2 fold, the unix box is a clients
machine, and we are not able to create or get them to create individual
user accounts, we have one (powerfull) user account for the company.


This particular app was built to basically run a script which generates
a report of errors, runtimes etc, of a clients overnight batch run.

Why not automatically run the script, either as the final task in the overnight run or later as a cron job, and have it e-mail you the report?

Making a script send e-mail is easy and by doing it that way you don't have to worry about giving the juniors access to the client system OR about them forgetting to create the report.

If you're worried about security, it should be easy enough to encrypt the report and attach it to the e-mail.

So this java app will also be used to automatically schedule/generate
this report.

*nixes already have a scheduler (see above), so why reinvent that particular wheel. You have a choice of scheduler: cron for jobs that always run at the scheduled interval and "at", that a process can use to schedule a following job.


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