1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Gurus I need to add a new cronjob to a list. There are already 7-8 cronjobs when I do crontab -e. I need to add a new cronjob without disturbing the existing ones. Can you please tell me how to do that. I am not so good in vi editor as well, but I can do it with some guidance. this is urgent,... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

can anybody explain the usage of CRON for adding a cron job. please provide an example also for better understanding !!! Thanks (1 Reply)

3. Solaris

hi, how i woulsd be able to find that my cron job is running or not.. E.g abc (2 Replies)

4. Solaris

I run cron in solaris 10 zone. One cron job which syncing files to nfs mounted on container, creates after finishing another cron proccess(/usr/sbin/cron), and after 100 existing cron proccesses next cron job will not start. It's too weird for me, I'm not able to solve this problem. Theoretically... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, Pretty new to CRON but have been messing with Ubuntu for a while now Here is the situation/problem I have run into you. I currently run a very basic back procedure by executing a daily CRON job which copies all data from one directory to a USB drive & date stamps the copy:- cp... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Can anyone help me in finding how to run a specific job every hour without using crontab. Say for example i need to run a command ps -aux in the starting of every hour.. (3 Replies)

7. Solaris

Hi , I have removed a cron for particular user , but cron job seems to be running even after the cron entry is removed. The purpose of the cron was to sendmail to user ( it uses mailx utility ) I have restarted cron and sendmail service still user is getting mail alerts from the cron job. And... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Someone please help me to run the script to maintain a Job: Which can be run for every one hour and should maintain the last two hours files only. It should delete the rest of the files in a dir. Please suggest me with the sample script. Thanks !! Reagrds, Rama (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a requirement to write a shell script,that will check the all commented job in cron job.Please help !! (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, 1) If some job supposed to run on 1st of every month at 7 AM In cron job when we have a blackout on the 1st ( i.e when 1st falls on a sunday ) how can we make the job run the next business day? 2) How can we run a job on 25th of every quarter 7 AM(jan,apr,jul,oct) And if 25th... (5 Replies)