at is usually for non-regular, one-time-only jobs while cron is usually for regular, perpetual jobs ...
at samples:
cron samples:
however, you can also get a job to go regularly with an at command by adding something like this in your script ...
... and a "one-time" job in cron ... (will only run when all time conditions are met) ...
btw, it would be best if you get into checking the man pages while you're just starting ... see "man at" and "man crontab" ...
Hi all,
I dont know if its the right place to ask it,
but can someone please explaine me the differnce between sun 220R server to a sun netra 1125?
any recommendation on which one is better?
Dori (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I would like to know the difference between these commands
/usr/lib/fs/hsfs/mount -F /dev/lofi/1 /usr
and
mount -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /usr
In the first case absolute path is specified and in the next the cmd with options ,whats the differnce.
PS:am sorry ,coz this had been... (1 Reply)
Dear all
We have SunOS 5.10 Generic_127127-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V250
i have scheduled cronjob but its not working
Crontab details
15 15 * * * /d5/oratest/testdb/hotbackup_new.sh TEST247
15 15 * * * mkdir -p rajesh /d4/appltest
Crontab log details
> CMD: mkdir... (4 Replies)
Greetings everybody,
I have an IBM P520 AIX 5.3 server machine and trying to use crontab to periodically excute a script that contains a command belongs to my software (Fast/Tools SCADA software)
I added the following line after using crontab -e
01 * * * * /mypath/myscript
I have two... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I had setup crontab to execute my script every day midnight 00:00
Below are the current settings.
crontab -l
0 0 * * * /apps/bin/compress.ksh_moht > /dev/null 2>&1
Should it not work?
I need help fix this? (8 Replies)
I can run manually script of ntopdump.sh but crontab can't run this script very five minutes.
# crontab -l
*/3 * * * * root sh /root/ping.sh
*/5 * * * * root sh /root/ntopdump.sh
#
# pwd
/root
# ls -l
total 88
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 1645 Jun 14 19:01 anaconda-ks.cfg
drwxrwxr-x 2 root... (14 Replies)
Shell = ksh
Hi all,
I scheduled an automated job on my application server like below,
30 13 * * 1-5 $HOME/my_script.sh
However the script was not executed as expected. Any reason that may cause this to happen? (6 Replies)
Hi,
When I set the crontab to run every minute, every hour, it works fine.
* * * * * env > /tmp/env.output
However I want to run it every day at 8:00 AM and it does not run.
* 8 * * * env > /tmp/env.output
I ran the 'date' command which says it's 8AM PST and also the 'TZ'... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I know this is a common topic. I'm trying to launch a perl script using a contab -e entry. I've been trying diff options but nothing seems to work:
My cron is running:
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 3755 1 0 Nov27 ? 00:00:00 crond
This... (4 Replies)
Dear Friends,
I have Red Hat Linux Enterprise version 6.3. running SAP and oracle.
I have created one crontab for user orasid to execute one job periodically.
But it is not executing. I have checked crontab service is running.
Please help in the matter.
Regards,
Bhagawati Pandey (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: BPANDEY
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX
sysmsg
sysmsg(7D) Devices sysmsg(7D)NAME
sysmsg - system message routing to console devices
SYNOPSIS
/dev/sysmsg
DESCRIPTION
The file /dev/sysmsg routes output to a variable set of console devices. Writes to /dev/sysmsg are always directed to the system console
/dev/console, and are in addition directed to a set of auxiliary console devices managed by consadm(1M).
Only root has permission to write to this device.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsr |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Stable |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO consadm(1M), syslogd(1M) , attributes(5), console(7D)SunOS 5.10 13 Oct 1998 sysmsg(7D)