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Operating Systems Solaris How to run cron entry every 5 min during office hours only? Post 302988170 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 21st of December 2016 09:17:49 AM
Old 12-21-2016
I've found this document that suggests that it has an extension to allow this:-
Code:
5/10 * * * * /you/command/here

.... but there is no clue which variant this might be deployed in. It is rejected for me on CentOS 6 with this:-
Code:
crontab: installing new crontab
"/tmp/crontab.cVRcNc":3: bad minute
errors in crontab file, can't install.
Do you want to retry the same edit?

It might be useful, but I'd prefer a fully functional external scheduler that allows for structured job planning and dependencies unless it's simple jobs running on many and widely distributed servers. Horses for courses I suppose. Smilie


Robin
 

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bcrontab(1)						      General Commands Manual						       bcrontab(1)

NAME
bcrontab - Manage users crontab files SYNOPSIS
bcrontab [ -u user ] file bcrontab [ -u user ] { -l | -r | -e } DESCRIPTION
bcrontab interfaces with the bcron-spool daemon to manage crontab files in the privileged spool directory. OPTIONS
-u user Tell bcron-spool that we are acting on behalf of the named user. bcron-spool will only accept the username if bcrontab is running as either root or the same user ID as the named user. -l List the cronab crontab to standard output. -r Remove the user's crontab. -e Edit the current crontab. ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL If this is set, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. EDITOR If $VISUAL is not set and this is, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. If neither are set, /bin/vi is used. BCRON_SOCKET The path to the named socket used to communicate with bcron-spool. Defaults to /var/run/bcron-spool. LOGNAME USER These two variables are used, in order, to determine the user name invoking the program. One must be set if the -u option is not used. FILES
bcrontab tries to writes a temporary file into the current directory, and then into /tmp if that fails, in order to edit the current crontab. SEE ALSO
bcron-spool(8), crontab(5) AUTHOR
Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca> bcrontab(1)
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