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hi..

i have a program (tf.sh), and i want what it runs automatically with a "lapsus" of 2 hours. (1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 hrs.)

i know what i have to do it using crontab, but i don´t know how to do it.

i have the next idea, but the problem is what it doesn´t run on my server (solaris 5.7):

0 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 * * * /sybase/TRANSFERENCIA_FTP/tf.sh 2>/tmp/.ftp.log.2 1>/tmp/.ftp.log.1

please help me - any idea
thanks
jona

You need one more asterisk in there.

From the crontab man page:

why do you said that i need another asterisk?

please, explain me ... i don´t know how to use crontab

thanks

My mistake, you don't need another asterisk. At first glace it seemed like you were missing a field.

Do you get any output into the files /tmp/.ftp.log.1 and /tmp/.ftp.log.2? Can you check if there are error messages in the cron log?

Is cron running? Type ps -ef | grep cron and post the output.

dangral was mistaken - he missed the leading 0 - you might want to put in
00 instead so others won't mistake it.

00 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 * * * /sybase/TRANSFERENCIA_FTP/tf.sh 2>/tmp/.ftp.log.2 1>/tmp/.ftp.log.1

instead of

0 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 * * * /sybase/TRANSFERENCIA_FTP/tf.sh 2>/tmp/.ftp.log.2 1>/tmp/.ftp.log.1


And I assume since this is started from /sybase, you require some of the env variables associated with Sybase. If you can run it from the command line and it works, then do the env command to find any sybase variables that will need to be set up in the tf.sh script to get it to work.

i don`t get any output into the files /tmp/.ftp.log.1 and /tmp/.ftp.log.2
is more, they don´t exist in the /temp folder

i put the command and this is the exit:
data:sybase>ps -e|grep cron

10564 pts/7 S 0:00 grep cron _=/usr/bin/grep ASTMP=/sybase/CATALOGO _INIT_

what does this mean? how can i do it again this crontab?

DebianJ, you are using /usr/ucb/ps. You need to use /usr/bin/ps to do what RTM asked.