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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to add a script to Crontab? Post 302497523 by Corona688 on Thursday 17th of February 2011 12:22:42 PM
Old 02-17-2011
Add a line like this:

Code:
0 * * * * /path/to/script.sh

This will tell cron to run /path/to/script.sh on minute 0 of every hour, day, month, and weekday.

If the script doesn't run quite properly from cron, it's probably because cron's default PATH is much more minimal than a user would have, either hardcode a sane PATH in the script (export PATH="...") or read in /etc/profile with . /etc/profile
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canto-fetch

Canto-fetch(1)							    Canto-fetch 						    Canto-fetch(1)

NAME

       Canto-fetch - A quiet feed fetcher.

DESCRIPTION

       Canto-fetch  is	designed  to  be run through a cron job, every minute. Every time it's run, it checks the timestamp on each index file and
       updates the feed, if necessary. The format it produces is a simple UTF-8 encoded, NULL delimited text file on disk, readable by	the  canto
       client.

GETTING STARTED

       Canto-fetch is meant to be used through a cron, adding this line to your crontab will cause canto-fetch to poll every minute.

       * * * * * canto-fetch

       Alternatively,  if  you're unable/uncomfortable using cron, canto-fetch has a background daemon mode so you can invoke it in your X session
       scripts. Just use

       canto-fetch -b

USAGE

       These options correspond to options to the canto client.

       -h / --help
	      Print usage and quit.

       -v / --version
	      Print version and quit.

       -V / --verbose
	      Output status while updating.

       -d / --daemon
	      Continue to check for updates every minute. Mostly for debugging with -V, users probably want -b to background.

       -b / --background
	      Detach from the terminal (implies -d)

       -f / --force
	      Force updates on all feeds, ignoring timestamps.

       -s / --sysfp
	      Use feedparser on system instead of builtin copy.

       -C / --conf [PATH]
	      Set path to configuration file (default: ~/.canto/conf)

       -F / --fdir [PATH]
	      Set path to feed directory (default: ~/.canto/feeds/)

       -L / --log [PATH]
	      Set path to log (default: ~/.canto/fetchlog)

       -S / --sdir [PATH]
	      Set the path to execurl scripts (default ~/.canto/scripts/)

FILES

       ~/.canto/fetchlog
	      Canto-fetch log file.

       ~/.canto/feeds/
	      This is the directory where canto-fetch records stories.

BUGS

       None known, but it's not outside of the realm of possibility =P.

HOMEPAGE

       http://codezen.org/canto

AUTHOR

       Jack Miller <jack@codezen.org>

Version 0.7.10							   27 July 2010 						    Canto-fetch(1)
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