I'm downloading, preprocessing, and indexing some newspapers;

I have a crontab like this:

#nation-wide
58 2 * * 0-6 /scripts/DownloadNewspapers.pl www.nytimes.com

#preprocessing  stuff here
*****
#indexing stuff here
*****

I need  the preprocessing process starting ONLY when the download process
has ended. I can use top to see is DownloadNewspapers.pl
is still alive or not, but this imply to create a script that is only
'hearing' processes... and has to be working the whole day, like a daemon.

Does anybody have a better, more elegant solution? (I'm sure that there must
be a Unix trick to do that...)

Thanks in advance,

Jose

  58 2 * * * /scripts/DownloadNewspapers.pl www.nytimes.com; preprocess_cmd

For day of the week field, * == 0-6

---Robert

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 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > I'm downloading, preprocessing, and indexing some newspapers;
 >
 > I have a crontab like this:
 >
 > #nation-wide
 > 58 2 * * 0-6 /scripts/DownloadNewspapers.pl www.nytimes.com
 >
 > #preprocessing  stuff here
 > *****
 > #indexing stuff here
 > *****
 >
 > I need  the preprocessing process starting ONLY when the download process
 > has ended. I can use top to see is DownloadNewspapers.pl
 > is still alive or not, but this imply to create a script that is only
 > 'hearing' processes... and has to be working the whole day, like a daemon.
 >
 > Does anybody have a better, more elegant solution? (I'm sure that there must
 > be a Unix trick to do that...)
 >
 > Thanks in advance,
 >
 > Jose

Aha, it would work if DownloadNewspapers.pl only return the control to the
system when finished;
But it is calling wget (a spider) as background process.
So, DownloadNewspapers.pl is done, but wget is still working in the
background...
You can monitor wget with top (not with ps) , and start preprocessing
when wget is done (but I don't know exactly how to get changing information
from top and handle it with a script that do that )
moreover, There is 6 simultaneous processes 'wget', one for each newspaper.

-Jose

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