Given that it's an "odd week" all week, what happens if you run this script?
You can run this manually to see what is happening.
You might also want to redirect your output and stderr from the script to a file rather than /dev/null. If there's an error in the script you'll be able to catch it. The way you have it coded you'll be scratching your head if there is a problem. I always like to have a log of what is kicked off by cron and usually put echo statements at key points (deleting files, skipping files in this case) so as to document that the script was run, and to know what it thought it did. Also to capture any error messages along the way.
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I just noticed that you're running it with #!/bin/sh. If on your system that points to a "real" Borne shell (and not a more recent shell), then the syntax $(...) and ((..)) might not be valid.
Try replacing #!/bin/sh with the path for bash or kshell (in addition to adding some logging).
Hi All,
I have to kick off a script on every Monday to get some data from database for last week (Sunday thru Saturday).
If its Monday (12/12/2005)
Begin date will be Sunday - 12/4/2005
End date will be Saturday - 12/10/2005
The script might not kick off on some Mondays.
So my... (2 Replies)
Dear all
How can I schedule the cronjob to be run sometime at every first Sunday at every month? I have the edit the cronjob every month now, thanks (2 Replies)
Hi ,
I have a date parameter passed in YYYYMMDD format , how can I check whether it is Sat or Sun on Solaris box , as we can do the same easily on linux box by using date -d YYYYMMDD '+a' .
Any pointres will be really helpful . (5 Replies)
Hi Am using Unix Ksh
I have a two date input as
DATE1=02/12/2012
DATE2=30/12/2012
I Need the output as only sunday date
02/12/2012
09/12/2012
16/12/2012
23/12/2012
30/12/2012
can anyone pls help me..
thanks in advance... (2 Replies)
Hi Am using unix Ksh
I have the two dates
DATE1=01/01/2013
DATE2=11/02/2013
In this two dates i need the output as count of sunday
sunday=6
Can anyone help me pls!!! (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to get the second Sunday of march in any year, I have tried below command but it is not giving me the correct output
i_year=`date +%Y`
cal -m 03 $i_year | sed '/^$/d' |head -4 |tail -1|rev | cut -c1`
This is returning me 0 , where as I want 10.
Can you please help
Thanks (5 Replies)
Hi,
Please can someone help me in getting first sunday date of a month.
i_year=`date +%Y`
ny_first_sun_nov=`cal 10 $i_year | sed '/^$/d' |head -3 |tail -1| rev | cut -c1`
This works good if the first sunday has a value but not if it is blank and first sunday falls on second week.
... (17 Replies)
Hi All,
Can you please let me know how to get the yesterday's date of the given date if the given date is Sunday?
I can't use GNU. I have the code to get the yesterday's date based on the system date.
Thanks (5 Replies)
Hi,
Actually scheduled my test scripts on test severs as shown below. They are supposed to run on 3rd sunday of every month.
Unfortunately it ran on 2nd sunday of the month (suspecting that it will run every sunday). I am sorry if I miss something. Could you please let me know if I did any... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
cron
CRON(8) System Manager's Manual CRON(8)NAME
cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
SYNOPSIS
cron
DESCRIPTION
Cron should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local. It will return immediately, so you don't need to start it with '&'.
Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron
also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d/ directory, which are in a different format (see crontab(5)). Cron then
wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, checking each command to see if it should be run in the current minute. When execut-
ing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if
such exists).
Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its spool directory's modtime (or the modtime on /etc/crontab) has changed, and if it has,
cron will then examine the modtime on all crontabs and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab
file is modified. Note that the Crontab(1) command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a crontab.
SEE ALSO crontab(1), crontab(5)AUTHOR
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
4th Berkeley Distribution 20 December 1993 CRON(8)