Unfortunately cron isn't very flexible in that respect. Does your script need to run exactly every 15 days, or could you just run it on the 1st and 16th of every month, i.e. approximately every 15 days?
Otherwise you might have to just run the job every day, and add some logic so that it exits without doing anything if the current number of days since Jan 1, 1970 is not evenly divisible by 15:
Last edited by Annihilannic; 10-13-2008 at 02:19 AM..
Reason: Removed duplicate calculation of modulus.
Hi
I have a shell script which works fine at the command line
and does works in crontab also but does not send the output to
mail as other scripts do by default.
10 1 * * * /export/home/test/report_script
by default should send the output to mail but the script
runs OK and the output... (1 Reply)
dear all ,
does any one now how can i become sure that the crontab that i put was working successfully not by looking for thr result of the sheduled task but from a log for the crontab or something similar
and i need to check that the cron i wrote is correct
00 15 * * 0,1,2,3,6... (2 Replies)
i have a ksh script that creates messages in a temp directory and then sends them out using the sendmail command and i'm trying to set it up to run every night with crontab.
So the basic gist of the script is
#create temp dir and messages
...
#loop through each message and send using sendmail... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I've a shell script which calls a Sybase stored procedure to do some functionality. I want to schedule the running of this script by crontab. I'm using Solaris 5.8. When i executed the following command
crontab -l
i got the output as
crontab: can't open your crontab file
How... (10 Replies)
hi,
I run a .sh file using crontab. I need to know the path of the file . Previously when I run the file alone , i used "pwd" but now when using crontab it gives the temp directory of the file.
Is there any way I can find the absolute path of the file when i execute it ?
Regards,
Ranga (7 Replies)
Dear All
jobs are scheduled in crontab . To view this I use crontab -l . But suddenly today I am not able to see any jobs that is being scheduled in crontab. when I type crontab -l , I am seeing nothing.I am not logging through admin user(i dont have it).But I can schedule jobs through... (3 Replies)
Hi, can someone explain the differences between using the at and crontab commands. When would you use one command over the other?
TIA
Dom (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
calendarserver_purge_events
CALENDARSERVER_PURGE_EVENTS(8) BSD System Manager's Manual CALENDARSERVER_PURGE_EVENTS(8)NAME
calendarserver_purge_events -- Darwin Calendar Server event clean-up utility
SYNOPSIS
calendarserver_purge_events [--config file] [--days number] [--dry-run] [--verbose] [--help]
DESCRIPTION
calendarserver_purge_events is a tool for removing old events from the calendar server. By default, events older than 365 days are removed,
but the user can specify the number of days in the past to use as a cut-off. Repeating events that have any occurrences after the cut-off
day are not removed.
calendarserver_purge_events should be run as a user with the same priviledges as the Calendar Server itself, as it needs to read and write
data that belongs to the server.
OPTIONS -h, --help
Display usage information
-f, --config FILE
Use the Calendar Server configuration specified in the given file. Defaults to /etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist.
-d, --days NUMBER
Specify how many days in the past to retain. Defaults to 365 days.
-n, --dry-run
Calculate and display how many events would be removed, but don't actually remove them.
-v, --verbose
Print progress information.
FILES
/etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist
The Calendar Server configuration file.
SEE ALSO caldavd(8)BSD June 17, 2009 BSD