1. AIX

Hi All, I want to run a cron job to run on the first saturday of each month at 1:30am. Would the following entry suffice this condition 30 1 6 * 6 wall %Will this work% Appreciate your time. (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, Where can we find Cron job logs?i have a cron job which is not executing at all, 00 12 * * * /xx/yy/job > /pp/qq/log if i execute the job alone,it is executing fine. >/xx/yy/job > /pp/qq/log (is executing fine) but its not executing when it triggered from cron.is there any place cron... (7 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi folks, I have got the following cron entry ... 08 30 * * * /mp1/scripts/test.sh > /mp1/scripts/test_logs.txt 2>&1 The problem is that instead of generating a new test_logs.txt file every time it keeps on appending the outputs to the test_logs.txt file. What is it that I am doing wrong... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have added the following entry in my cron file: * * * * * . /home/texprd/.profile>/dev/null 2>&1; echo "test" >> /home/texprd/test.log 2>&1 The cron fails ie the added command fails to append "test" in the test.log file. However if I run the command manually from the shell... (3 Replies)

5. Solaris

Hello All, Anybody please help me to know ,what happens when a user having entry in both cron.allow and cron.deny files.Wheather the user will be able to access the crontab??? Thanks in advance Vaisakh (5 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Can someone please quickly respond to this? I need to have a script test.sh to run every 30 minutes from Monday to Saturday from 6am to 10pm as a crontab entry... Thanks. (3 Replies)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I need some clarification on cron entries. I have a cron job like.. 15 01 19 02 6 exec /usr/bin/test.ksh and I have another cron entry added, which is 15 01 20 02 6 exec /usr/bin/test.ksh So, I am thinking the second cron entry shouldn't have run because 02/20 is Sunday, but... (1 Reply)

8. Solaris

Hi, I have to add two cron entry now. Please correct me if anything wrong Below script should run at every one and half hour. 30 01 * * * /export/home/gxadm/scripts/collect_mq_info.pl $HOME/GCSS/logs > /dev/null 2>&1 Below script should run at every 2 hours 0 02 * * *... (9 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, i have a folder in a server say xxx.xx.xx.xx\abcd\efgh. i want to make a cron job entry so that i would get a mail (me@example.com) on business days. will this help me... 30 4 * * 1-5 cd \abcd\efgh|ls-ltr|mailx:me@example.comhttps://www.unix.com/images/editor/code.png (10 Replies)

10. Solaris

Hi I have a system running solaris 11, in which I am able to execute a script from the command line, but once I put i the crontab does run, but do not give results. The entry is: 15 11 * * * /var/oswbb/./startOSWbb.sh >> myjob.log 2>&1 30 11 * * * /var/oswbb/./stopOSWbb.sh I have check... (2 Replies)