Can someone advise me how to get started automatically running scripts? I believe it has something to do with cron?

cron is designed for periodically scheduling
init (/etc/init.d/) for automatically starting scripts during system startup, depends on what you want (console, GUI... system's run level)

what do you want?

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Vladimir
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Well I have some scripts that I run manually everyday. I was wondering if it was possible to get these scripts to automatically run at say 4:30am every mourning.

I am using UNIX Sco 5.0.6. Thanks.

Usually /etc/crontab file contains configuration for cron daemon, which schedule scripts or programs according to it.

To automate running scripts at 4:30am every day you must write string to crontab file something like:

30 4 * * * * user /home/user/script.sh

First column - minutes, second - hours (24-h format)

You can setup any time to within 1 minute (if you need seconds - you can run 'sleep' or so at the script).


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Vladimir
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Vladimir

can you please tell me how to execute a script as soon as unix is booted.

I think crontab won't be helpful in this scenario.

Regards
Atin Sood