Solaris

Hi,

I have a script in my home directory. it has to be run every day. as of now, im manually running as ./myscript.sh

Can someone please tell me how to set it as automatic run (runs everyday at specific time ) so that it runs even if im not there.

Hi, Thanks for providing the link.

it seems im not authorized to use cron in our application's server. is there any other way ???

Hi Jskobs,

You have to be enabled to use cron in Solaris now, however there are other ways to do this.

You could check out the "at" command, however there may be a requirement to be enabled to use that. Or you could try just creating a script that checks the time, since the script has run using a timestamp on a file, if the time since the last run is 24h + run it again.

Regards

Dave

Thanks for the reply Dave,

I didn't get the logic you mentioned, can you explain ?

As I said, cron is now a specific allow - so you would have to speak to a systems admin and they would allow you to run cron.

However it may be that you could set up an at job, using the following;

Code:

at -t 20120401120000 ./myscript.sh

This would run your script at noon on the first of April.

Or you could create a script which when executed would wait for a specific time and then run the script.

If it's just to cover time off - then I might use at, but then check "man at"

The first port of call should be the systems admin, who will allow the cron job if it is important.

Reagards

Dave

go to crontab -e
edit the time, date, etc.
example:
0 6 * * * /home/directory/your_script.sh
explanation:
your script will run everyday at exactly 6am in the morning.
just edit the directory by typing pwd (the exact location of your script)
be sure to edit the permission of your file to make cron/scheduled run of your script to work (chmod o+x your_script.sh)