Although there are many threads on this forum regarding cron, none have specifically answered my question. So hopefully someone can shed some light on what I'm doing wrong..
I have a perl script that I want to run in a cron job. Since I've read that cron doesn't have any environments set, I... (3 Replies)
Hello evreyone,
this is my first post, and to say i'm new to this is an understatement.
I know very little about perl scripts and hope some one can help me.
i'm looking to get a script that a cron job can execute.
what the script needs to to is
1) connect to a mysql database
2) go to a... (2 Replies)
Hi, new to this forum and not sure if this is the right place to post. I'm new to cron jobs and scripts, and I need some help with a script to be used with a cron job. I already have a bot set up at a certain website address and need a script that the cron job will load every day that tells it to... (1 Reply)
Hey Guys,
i was trying out a shell script which has to remove a file for every 90 mins. this is the code i came up with .
$ crontab -e file1
file1 contains
30 1 * * * * rm -r /folder1/folder2/somefile.txt
Now i need the cron to run for every 90 mins. the problem with this is... (8 Replies)
I'm using a shared server on Hostgator (Linux CentOS). I'm trying to set a cron job using the Control Panel that will check if its already running before starting a new one.
I've tried the following...
* * * * * &&
but I get this error emailed to me...
/bin/sh: line 0:
Any... (5 Replies)
Hello,
How do I schedule a cron job for a phython script to run every hour?
Also, in case in future I decide to edit/cancel the job how should i do it?
Does it matter where my phython script is located? Also, I have am using mailx utility in my script to send me an email and dont want... (7 Replies)
I've created a script to copy backup files from an HP-UX 11iv3 system to an NFS share on another machine. I want to schedule the script to run via cron. The script is simply three lines of cp /backups/Backup /shared/Backup. I've saved the script as a .sh file and call it with KSH. Do I need to... (3 Replies)
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yum-cron
yum-cron(8)yum-cron(8)NAME
yum-cron - an interface to convieniently call yum from cron
SYNOPSIS
yum-cron [config-file]
DESCRIPTION
yum-cron is an alternate interface to yum that is optimised to be convenient to call from cron. It provides methods to keep repository
metadata up to date, and to check for, download, and apply updates. Rather than accepting many different command line arguments, the dif-
ferent functions of yum-cron can be accessed through config files.
config-file is used to optionally specify the path to the configuration file to use. If it is not given, the default configuration file
will be used. It is useful to be able to specify different configuration files for different use cases. For example, one configuration
file might be set to update the repository metadata, and a line could be added to the crontab to run yum-cron frequently using this file.
Then, another configuration file might be set to install updates, and yum-cron could be run from cron using this file just once each day.
FILES
/etc/yum/yum-cron.conf
/etc/yum/yum-cron-hourly.conf
SEE ALSO
yum (8)
AUTHORS
See the Authors file included with this program.
BUGS
There of course aren't any bugs, but if you find any, you should email
the mailing list, yum@lists.baseurl.org, or consult bugzilla.
Nick Jacekyum-cron(8)