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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to schedule a cronjob to kick start @ 8:30 PM server time and run every 5 mins there upon till I force stop it.
Can you please let me know how can it be achieved ? (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I have created a shell script, When i run it manually as ./<script_name> it takes 5 hours to run, but when i am scheduling it in crontab, it is taking 20 hours to run.
Please help me and advice, what can be done to reduce the time in crontab.
Thank you (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: anand2308
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3. AIX
This is a new one on me. We upgraded a system from AIX 5.3 TL 7 to 6.1 TL 7 yesterday. The app people notified us that their cron jobs weren't running at the right time. So I made a test cron entry and here's what I've found:
# crontab -l
* * * * * /usr/bin/date > /tmp/test.log 2>&1
# cat... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: homeyjoe
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4. Solaris
I have set up my cron job on the solaris SunOS 5.10 Generic_138888-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 but it is not running on time as expected.
Would you please help me to find out what I did wrong?
I want to have this cron job run once every month on the 1st Wednesday of the month, but it ran... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: ggcc
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
good day..how can I simply create a cron job that will be executed every 5mins from 12:01 to 7Pm..
is it like this
*/5 12:01-19 * * * <path> (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: lhareigh890
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to set cron job for different time zone from my machine. So here is what I did to set it.
I am having a file cronfile, which I use to set cron jobs by using
Crontab cronfile
Now in cronfile I set TZ variable as
Set TZ=Asia/Calcutta
But now... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sarbjit
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
im puting script in crontab, script is executing every 15min, every day, every monath
but i must make time range from 0:00 - 20:00 <> 20:30 - 0:00
or if i cant make 20:30 then 0:00 - 20:00 <> 21:00- 0:00
can i make it in single line like this?
7,22,37,52 0-23 * * * test.sh >/dev/null... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: waso
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi,
what exaclt means the below in crontab
30 8-20/2 * * 1-5 /home/devtest/run.sh (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mail2sant
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am a beginner in shell scripting but I have a task to complete where I have to extract the time of script execution in human format so anyone can run the script and understand what script is running when in simple format. Let me illustrate what I mean:
Two scripts in crontab, for this... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: harjitsingh
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is there anyway to get the start time and end time / status of a crontab job which was just completed? Of course, we know the start time of the crontab job since we are scheduling. But I would like to know process start and time recorded somewhere or can be fetched from a command like 'ps'. ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: thambi
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