Sponsored Content
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cron job - Need to run Cron every quarter at particular time Post 302926593 by RudiC on Tuesday 25th of November 2014 11:09:43 AM
Old 11-25-2014
See man crontab. crontab entry for
Code:
1)
0 7 1 * * jobscript1
2)
0 7 25 1,4,7,10 * jobscript2

In the respective script, test for Sundays, e.g. like [ $(date +%u) -eq 7 ] && sleep 86400. This will not work across reboots.

Last edited by RudiC; 11-25-2014 at 12:24 PM.. Reason: made crontab lines clearer (see derekludwig's comment below)
This User Gave Thanks to RudiC For This Post:
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Run cron job problem

I have the below crontab job that it will run at every 7:00am - 10:00am , it work fine , now if I want to skip to run the crontab job at a specific time , eg. I want the script not to run at next Monday 8:00am ( only skip this time , other time is normal ) , how can I make it ? is it possible ?... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ust
3 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Does not run via cron job

I have a perl script, when I ran manually it works perfect. I check the permissions which are fine. How can I find out why it is not running? how can I setup a log to check. I am running it on solaris 9. It compares multiple files, SCP and then send out an e-mail. As I said when I ran it... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: amir07
2 Replies

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Need help with a script run by a cron job.

Hi, new to this forum and not sure if this is the right place to post. I'm new to cron jobs and scripts, and I need some help with a script to be used with a cron job. I already have a bot set up at a certain website address and need a script that the cron job will load every day that tells it to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: klawless
1 Replies

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Use cron to run job every other week

my colleague was asking about this: is there a way to run a cron job biweekly, like a script five.sh to run every *OTHER* Friday within November its part about every other Friday we cant find any documentation. thx L (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: lydiaflamp
8 Replies

5. Linux

how to run cron tab job on linux

Dear All many hosting companies do have provision of cron tab settings In case a web hosting company do not have such facility can I run cron tab job (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vikaspa
1 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

cron job to run on second to last friday each month

I needed a cron job to run on the second to last friday of every month. Our servers are running HP-UX, and the HP-UX date command is pretty basic and does not have all of the fancy options that Linux date command does, and it does not have the ability at all to return future dates. So I had to... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: lupin..the..3rd
0 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

get selective input and run cron job.

Hi, I have one shell script where it will copy all files to a directory which is already present, For example : i have directory DIRA and DIRB, and my shell script will expects user input to specify which directory should files must be copied. this shell scrip i am running every day using... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: asak
1 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cron Job to Run for 30 minutes

Hello Gurus, I have a requirement to run a job from cron only for 30 minutes duration daily twice at 8.35 am and 20.35 pm Can you please suggest how to schedule the job? Thanks- Pokhraj (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: pokhraj_d
5 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cron Job to Run every 2 minutes

Hello Gurus, I want to schedule a cron job which will run every 2 minutes starts at 11:25 AM and 3:25 AM daily. Can you please suggest as how to schedule the job. Thanks- Pokhraj Das (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pokhraj_d
2 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cron job cannot run the command

Hi, I created this cron job for asterisk to send sms daily to a number #!/bin/sh #custom mod - send sms once a day, at 07:00. CRON_PATH="/etc/asterisk/gw/crontabs_root"; if ! grep 'gsm send sms' $CRON_PATH > /dev/null 2>&1 ;then echo "* 7 * * * asterisk -rx 'gsm send sms 1 7666... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jazzyzha
4 Replies
bcrontab(1)						      General Commands Manual						       bcrontab(1)

NAME
bcrontab - Manage users crontab files SYNOPSIS
bcrontab [ -u user ] file bcrontab [ -u user ] { -l | -r | -e } DESCRIPTION
bcrontab interfaces with the bcron-spool daemon to manage crontab files in the privileged spool directory. OPTIONS
-u user Tell bcron-spool that we are acting on behalf of the named user. bcron-spool will only accept the username if bcrontab is running as either root or the same user ID as the named user. -l List the cronab crontab to standard output. -r Remove the user's crontab. -e Edit the current crontab. ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL If this is set, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. EDITOR If $VISUAL is not set and this is, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. If neither are set, /bin/vi is used. BCRON_SOCKET The path to the named socket used to communicate with bcron-spool. Defaults to /var/run/bcron-spool. LOGNAME USER These two variables are used, in order, to determine the user name invoking the program. One must be set if the -u option is not used. FILES
bcrontab tries to writes a temporary file into the current directory, and then into /tmp if that fails, in order to edit the current crontab. SEE ALSO
bcron-spool(8), crontab(5) AUTHOR
Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca> bcrontab(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 02:52 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy