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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How would i schedule a job on ESX Post 302433540 by pinga123 on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 02:18:43 AM
Old 06-30-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by pludi
Bash and crontab have 2 things in common: they run on most Unices, and both are written (largely) in C. That's it.

Searching on the net I found this. Basically, you have to edit /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root directly.
I could not able to see the link given as it is blocked in our office environment.

However i m still not able to schedule the job. m i missing anything?
I checked the current timing
Code:
/sbin # date
Wed Jun 30 05:27:48 UTC 2010

then modified the root file to run the coyfile.sh
Code:
/sbin # cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
#syntax : minute hour day month dayofweek command
01 01 * * * /sbin/tmpwatch.sh
01 * * * * /sbin/auto-backup.sh #first minute of every hour (run every hour)
00,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /sbin/decodeSel.sh #Every 10 minutes, translate the latest IPMI SEL data
30 05 30 6 wed /sbin/copyfile.sh #Testing purpose

content of my script
Code:
# cat copyfile.sh
#!/bin/ash
touch test.txt

I m not able to see the test.txt created in /sbin directory .

Please guide.
 

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NAME

     uname -- Print operating system name

SYNOPSIS

     uname [-amnprsv]

DESCRIPTION

     The uname utility writes symbols representing one or more system characteristics to the standard output.

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