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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cron Job to Run every 2 minutes Post 302962869 by Don Cragun on Saturday 19th of December 2015 10:49:26 PM
Old 12-19-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by pokhraj_d
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
I don't understand the problem. If a job is supposed to start every two minutes what difference does it make when the first one starts? And, why do you need two jobs that run every two minutes? Why not just run one script every two minutes that fires up the two script you want to run?

On systems where cron/crontab allows repetitions using /, it would seem that the following crontab entries should work:
Code:
1/2 * * * * /path/to/your/0325script
1/2 * * * * /path/to/your/1125script

and on other systems, the longer (standard) specification requesting the same behavior would be:
Code:
1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41,43,45,47,49,51,53,55,57,59 * * * * /path/to/your/0325script
1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41,43,45,47,49,51,53,55,57,59 * * * * /path/to/your/1125script

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gnome-schedule

GNOME-SCHEDULE(1)					      General Commands Manual						 GNOME-SCHEDULE(1)

NAME

       gnome-schedule - GNOME GUI for users' crontabs

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-schedule [option...]

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-schedule is a graphical user interface that leverages the power of cron or anacron and at to manage a user's crontab file and provide
       an easy way to schedule tasks. It supports recurrent tasks and tasks that happen only once in the future.  The  user  interface	translates
       cron strings into human-readible form for ease-of-use, but also has an expert option for those familiar with the cron file format.

       For documentation on interactive use of gnome-schedule, select the Help menu option while running the program.

OPTIONS

       gnome-schedule  supports  the standard GTK+ and GNOME command-line options, most of which need not be used except in special circumstances.
       To view a complete list, see gnome-schedule --help.

BUGS

       There are currently no known bugs. If you encounter one, please report it using reportbug gnome-schedule.

SEE ALSO

       cron(8), crontab(1), crontab(5), anacron(1), at(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>, and revised by Christine Spang <christine@debian.org> for the Debian
       project (but may be used by others).

								 November 22, 2007						 GNOME-SCHEDULE(1)
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