1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm new to cron and I would like to know if this cron entry looks right. Every monday to friday, at 9:15 AM execute the script called done_att.sh Every monday to friday, at 3:15 PM execute the script called start_att.sh 15 09 * * /u54/jobs/done_att.sh 45 15 * *... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I would like to add a job using cron. I have following questions - cron jobs are launched using what login-id e.g. is the script launced using my login-id - In which directory would the cron jobs be launched ? - where do the environment variables required in the script being lauched come... (3 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have some cron jobs that are taking a might long time. That is because they are screen scrapers and I inserted an extra long pause (10 minutes between screens) to be extra polite and minimize network traffic. I was going to have them run once a day but now I'm thinking once a week. How do I... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Before I get a million and one suggestions on all the things that could be wrong with my scripts - let me assure everyone that this is not the issue. i have a RH EL ES4 server that stopped running all cron jobs except hourly, daily, weekly. This has affected all users including root. No... (7 Replies)

5. OS X (Apple)

I have a cron job set up to run a script on my Leopard Server every night. The job is set up as root, and when I run the script manually, it runs fine. The problem is that it is not doing anything when it runs at night. In the cron log, it says it ran, but did not output the results to the file it... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, I've got a few cron jobs ... porblem is they are running as intended but some of them just tend to stay there in sleeping mode for quite some time ... sometimes even days ... for example when i run the ps command i can see that some are still there although the same script had run many... (6 Replies)

7. Solaris

Hi, I am logging into sun solaris unix box as asood user.Then sudo su_appssu and scheduled my cron jobs.The user appssu is there In the /etc/cron.d/cron.allow . I do not understand why the jobs are not kicking by cron. Do I need to enter directly as appssu ? Regards Megh (10 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Is it possible to run different cron jobs at the same time? It appears that when I run ones at 15 min granularity that they may prevent ones running later in the day. Should crons run at same time have impact on one another? (4 Replies)

9. Red Hat

Hi unix.com, I'm currently experiencing a problem on one of our servers at work where between the hours of approx. 1:00 AM and 2:0 AM no jobs scheduled through cron run. Now, in the cron logs I do see that all jobs are launched and I'm not seeing any errors anywhere - but - none of the jobs... (2 Replies)

10. Red Hat

I've scheduled few jobs using cron. But they are not running ..... What might be the possible reasons ?? Also tell me how to troubleshoot............. Please help me ....... Thanks in Advance. (2 Replies)