should work: create important.tar every Saturday at 15:45.
The v option is not needed.
Does the command work outside cron i.e. when run from the command line?
Instead of the first five fields, one of eight special strings may appear:
string meaning
------ -------
@reboot Run once, at startup.
@yearly Run once a year, "0 0 1 1 *".
@annually (same as @yearly)
@monthly Run once a month, "0 0 1 * *".
@weekly Run once... (2 Replies)
I have the following crontab entry.
0,30 00-16 * * *
This job runs every 30 minutes between the hours of 12:00AM and 4:00PM. How can I have it stop at 4:30PM instead?
Thank you,
David (3 Replies)
I have a script which shoud run after every 30 minutes.Though I know abt crontab, unfortunately I dont have access/authorization to use crontab in my terminal.
Could any one pls let me know how to schedule the script without crontab ?
Regards
Prashant:) (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a script which will query the DB and added to crontab at 1,2,6,7 AM everyday and sends a email if count is 0.
Now the problem is, if crontab is disabled it doesn't sends a mail.
Please tell me how can I handle this situation in the script. (2 Replies)
All,
I'm a newbie with crontab and I need your help with schedule a cold-backup running every Sunday at 7am except 1st of the month.
Thank you so much. (2 Replies)
Hi,
My script is in $home/bin/sample.sh.
I want to run the script for 3times a day,
first execution will be at 08:00 am.
second execution will be at 16:00 pm
third will be at 23:59 pm.
what will be the entry with this requirement?? (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I would like to schedule a crontab script, which should run From 8pm Thursday to 2am Friday and it should run every 10 minutes. I have put a script like below, is it the correct one.
10 01,02,20,21,22,23,00 * * 4-5 /u01/app/test.ksh
Any other options available to schedule the same... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
How to schedule crontab on all day except sunday and monday means from tuesday to saturday at 06:00AM. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Riverstone
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
gnome-schedule
GNOME-SCHEDULE(1) General Commands Manual GNOME-SCHEDULE(1)NAME
gnome-schedule - GNOME GUI for users' crontabs
SYNOPSIS
gnome-schedule [option...]
DESCRIPTION
gnome-schedule is a graphical user interface that leverages the power of cron or anacron and at to manage a user's crontab file and provide
an easy way to schedule tasks. It supports recurrent tasks and tasks that happen only once in the future. The user interface translates
cron strings into human-readible form for ease-of-use, but also has an expert option for those familiar with the cron file format.
For documentation on interactive use of gnome-schedule, select the Help menu option while running the program.
OPTIONS
gnome-schedule supports the standard GTK+ and GNOME command-line options, most of which need not be used except in special circumstances.
To view a complete list, see gnome-schedule --help.
BUGS
There are currently no known bugs. If you encounter one, please report it using reportbug gnome-schedule.
SEE ALSO cron(8), crontab(1), crontab(5), anacron(1), at(1)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>, and revised by Christine Spang <christine@debian.org> for the Debian
project (but may be used by others).
November 22, 2007 GNOME-SCHEDULE(1)