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    copied!<p>I am very new to Linux Shell Scripting and was wondering if anyone could help me with the following.</p> <p>I created a script to synch time with my linux machine but only one exec command seems to complete</p> <pre><code>#!/bin/bash #Director SMS Synch Time Script echo The current date and time is: date echo echo Synching GTS Cluster 1 directors with SMS. echo echo Changing date and time for director-1-1-A exec ssh root@128.221.252.35 "ntpd -q -g" echo Finished synching director-1-1-A echo sleep 2 echo Changing date and time for director-1-1-B exec ssh root@128.221.252.36 "ntp -q -g" echo Finished synching director-1-1-B echo sleep 2 echo Finished Synching GTS Cluster 1 directors with SMS. sleep 2 echo echo Synching SVT Cluster 2 directors with SMS. echo echo Changing date and time for director-2-1-A exec ssh root@128.221.252.67 "ntpd -q -g" echo Finished synching director-2-1-A echo sleep 2 echo Changing date and time for director-2-1-B exec ssh root@128.221.252.68 "ntpd -q -g" echo Finished synching director-2-1-B echo sleep 2 echo Changing date and time for director-2-2-A exec ssh root@128.221.252.69 "ntpd -q -g" echo Finished synching director-2-2-A echo sleep 2 echo Changing date and time for director-2-2-B exec ssh root@128.221.252.70 "ntpd -q -g" echo Finished synching director-2-2-B sleep 2 echo echo echo Finished Synching SVT Cluster 2 directors with SMS. </code></pre> <p>The script only seems to complete after the first exec command.</p> <p>Thu Aug 25 12:40:44 EDT 2011</p> <p>Synching GTS Cluster 1 directors with SMS.</p> <p>Changing date and time for director-1-1-A</p> <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated =)</p>
 

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