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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Crontab on AIX Post 302521784 by dbchud on Thursday 12th of May 2011 09:04:32 AM
Old 05-12-2011
Crontab on AIX

Hi

I'm trying to set up a crontab on AIX and for some reason it's not running my script at the specified time - here's what I have tried so far:


Code:
30 14 * * * <scriptname>
35 14 *** /directory/<scriptname>
40,14 *** /directory/<scriptname> (nb crontab won't accept the comma)

1 and 2 look OK when I go "crontab -l", seems to be fine, but my script doesn't run... any ideas? Smilie

---------- Post updated at 07:57 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:53 AM ----------

Hmmm seems that whoever set my environment up set it up to be 1hr ahead of the current time, do'h!!! So, I'll try to re-schedule as per the server time and not the PC time.

---------- Post updated at 08:04 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:57 AM ----------

Alas, it didn't work... any ideas? Smilie
 

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truncate - shrink or extend the size of a file to the specified size SYNOPSIS
truncate OPTION... FILE... DESCRIPTION
Shrink or extend the size of each FILE to the specified size A FILE argument that does not exist is created. If a FILE is larger than the specified size, the extra data is lost. If a FILE is shorter, it is extended and the extended part (hole) reads as zero bytes. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -c, --no-create do not create any files -o, --io-blocks treat SIZE as number of IO blocks instead of bytes -r, --reference=RFILE base size on RFILE -s, --size=SIZE set or adjust the file size by SIZE bytes --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit SIZE is an integer and optional unit (example: 10M is 10*1024*1024). Units are K, M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y (powers of 1024) or KB, MB, ... (powers of 1000). SIZE may also be prefixed by one of the following modifying characters: '+' extend by, '-' reduce by, '<' at most, '>' at least, '/' round down to multiple of, '%' round up to multiple of. GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report truncate translation bugs to <http://translationpro- ject.org/team/> AUTHOR
Written by Padraig Brady. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
dd(1), truncate(2), ftruncate(2) The full documentation for truncate is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and truncate programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'truncate invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 TRUNCATE(1)
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