Probably a silly question, but did you originally have just the 01:00 definition?
If so, did you use crontab -e to edit the file, or did you just edit the file down /var/spool/cron/....... somewhere?
If you did then the cron deamon will not recognise the update.
A forced clock change with date -u can also confuse cron and you may need to stop/restart it.
If you feel that you should stop/restart it because of either of the above, check in /etc/inittab to see if it has been coded as a respawn process. I have this on AIX, but HP-UX seems to have it started with /sbin/rc2.d/S730cron. You would be best to stop start with this script if this is what you have too. Run it as root:-
Of course, if this is not the case, please ignore me.
can someone please check my answers for the crontabs I am making
1. how would I set up a crontab tab executes every 2 minutes each and every day of the week?
answer: 2 * * * * /path/to/file.pl <-- is this correct?
2. how would I set up a crontab that executes every 24 hours at 2am?... (6 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I want to run a script which will move the files from particular directory to another backup directory After EVERY 5 hour.
How can I put it in crontab-
5 hours!!! * * * * /home/movefilescritp.sh
//purple (8 Replies)
Hi experts,
I want to set the crontab for my script which will run every 20 seconds
I think below could be the possible one-
*/3 * * * * /export/home/username/scripts/runing.sh
As my system(SOLARIS 9) is live- i am confused to implement before make sure !!!
I need... (4 Replies)
I want to add a crontab entry which should execute for every 4 hours and that 4 hours calculation should begin from the current time.
Normally if I set the crontab entry like this,
00 */4 30 05 * root date >>/tmp/cronout
The above will execute the date command for every 4 hours like... (7 Replies)
Hello all,
I'm trying to write a script to gather and send data and it works just fine at the bash command line, but when executing from CRON, it does not run properly.
My scripting skills are pretty limited and there's probably a better way, but as I said it works at the command line, but... (12 Replies)
Hi
I need to setuop a cron entry to run every 5 min, only in office hours (between 8:00AM to 18:00PM, I did the following:
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18 * * * /home/xxx/zzz.ksh
But somehow does not work.
Could it be wrong? (8 Replies)
I'm trying to get a crontab to run, every Friday at 11am and the problem is that it isn't running at all.
0 11 * * 6 /Users/martinb/Documents/SYSADMIN/Regular-Scripts/Info-And-Backups.sh
Here's a link to a screenshot of my script (I've censored my email address).
Screen Shot 2017 11 03... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I've written a ksh script that read a file and parse/filter/format each line. The script runs as expected but it runs for 24+ hours for a file that has 2million lines. And sometimes, the input file has 10million lines which means it can be running for more than 2 days and still not finish.... (9 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a bash script which is scheduled to run for every 20 minutes. Inside the bash script, one command which I am using need to be triggered only once in two or three hours.Is there anyway to achieve this.
For example,
if
then
echo "hi"
else
echo "Hello"
UNIX Command---once... (5 Replies)