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Operating Systems Solaris How to define every 5 hours in Crontab Post 302251890 by methyl on Tuesday 28th of October 2008 10:06:30 AM
Old 10-28-2008
Could execute the script (with full path name) once in background with "at now", and then use "at now + 5 hours" at the start of the script to spawn the script again. Needs a simple stop flag to stop the process.

#!/bin/ksh
COMMAND_LINE="$0"
if [ -f /tmp/stop_flag ]
then
exit
fi
echo "${COMMAND_LINE}" | at now + 5 hours
# Rest of the script
#


Note: The 5 hours may drift over a period of time due to cron and shell initialisation times.
 

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