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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
1)
If some job supposed to run on 1st of every month at 7 AM
In cron job when we have a blackout on the 1st ( i.e when 1st falls on a sunday ) how can we make the job run the next business day?
2) How can we run a job on 25th of every quarter 7 AM(jan,apr,jul,oct)
And if 25th... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: System Admin 77
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a requirement to write a shell script,that will check the all commented job in cron job.Please help !! (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: netdbaind
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3. Solaris
Hi ,
I have removed a cron for particular user , but cron job seems to be running even after the cron entry is removed. The purpose of the cron was to sendmail to user ( it uses mailx utility )
I have restarted cron and sendmail service still user is getting mail alerts from the cron job. And... (4 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Pretty new to CRON but have been messing with Ubuntu for a while now
Here is the situation/problem I have run into you.
I currently run a very basic back procedure by executing a daily CRON job which copies all data from one directory to a USB drive & date stamps the copy:-
cp... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: 2scoops
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have written a number of shell scripts which I have added to cron to run on an Apple Xserve running MAc OS Server 10.4.11.
Recently I configured postfix to use one of my company's email servers as a relay so that it can send out statistics about the number of jobs my shell scripts have... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: buzzs4w
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6. Solaris
I run cron in solaris 10 zone. One cron job which syncing files to nfs mounted on container, creates after finishing another cron proccess(/usr/sbin/cron), and after 100 existing cron proccesses next cron job will not start. It's too weird for me, I'm not able to solve this problem. Theoretically... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ron76
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
can anybody explain the usage of CRON for adding a cron job. please provide an example also for better understanding !!!
Thanks (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: skyineyes
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I believe that crob invokes command under bash. But most of our work are
carried out using c shell. So what do I need to be aware of (or what precautions should I be taking) when I use cron. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sharanbr
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9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I need to do some DB maintenance, but there are cron jobs running all weekend.
How do I stop the cron jobs (that I see when I do a crontab -l) for the weekend then restart the cron jobs.
My understanding is that when the system is startted cron jobs in the /usr/spool/cron/crontabs folder are... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cjcamaro
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
how do you schedule a job to run at the last day of the in a single crontab line
for example if I put a crontab entry of
0 0 31 * * /path_of_my_script
the above will only run if the last day of the months is 31, what happens if the last day of the month is 28 or 30.
if I put a crontab... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: hassan2
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