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Old 09-17-2013
Schedule task on some date and time.

Hi ! all

I am interested to know how to schedule some task, say delete some directory which needs root privileges, please someone suggest me other than crontab

Here is a scenario

schedule date is 25-09-2013 time 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
delete directory log in following path
Code:
/usr/local/www/tomcat/log

deletion should be done between 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Assume I scheduled task on 20-09-2013, and I will be going on leave for a week, in between before 25-09-2013 if suppose system restarts then also it should remember task scheduled,
Code:
rc.local

is one way I guess. but how to schedule without using crontab
# 2  
Old 09-17-2013
Have you looked at the at command?
# 3  
Old 09-17-2013
No I haven't now looking at man page..tell me how it can be done

here is my crontab entry its not working

Code:
00 11-12 * * * root cd /home/akshay/data && Auto_up_daily.sh
00 11-12 * * 1-5 root cd /home/akshay/data && Auto_up_weekly.sh
42 4 1 * * root cd /home/akshay/data && Auto_up_monthly.sh
@daily root /sbin/shutdown -r now

some one please help this crontab entry is not working

Last edited by Akshay Hegde; 09-21-2013 at 10:20 AM..
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