12-19-2007
cron ? automating a script
Hi all.
basically i need to run a script every 30 minutes.
my script is simply an error report:
errpt
thats it, is there anyway to make this happen every 30 minutes
without having to type errpt in, the script will get bigger as i add more things to do but just need to know how to automate it.
Also dont know anything about cron
thanks guys.
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let(1) User Commands let(1)
NAME
let - shell built-in function to evaluate one or more arithmetic expressions
SYNOPSIS
ksh
let arg...
DESCRIPTION
ksh
Each arg is a separate "arithmetic expression" to be evaluated.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 The value of the last expression is non-zero.
1 The value of the last expression is zero.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
ksh(1), set(1), typeset(1), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 let(1)