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Code:

* 6-11 * * *  triggeralert.ksh

Runs every minute from 6:00 to 11:59 every day.

Hi,

Basically am Tibco professional and i want to setup the cronjob based on the client requirement. I don't know about cronjobs in unix. Could you please help me the command to setup.

Thanks

You have been given the cron line in detail and a link explaining the commands in detail.

Ask more specific questions and we can give more specific answers.

Hi,

I don't know whether this forum helps me or not.See first of all i can't understand the cronjob in the specified link and moreover i am struggling to setup the cronjob because the client is irritating me to setup the job. Could you please help me anyone of them to use your expertise to post the command.

thanks for help...

thanks in advance

Can you tell me if you want to run this script once every hour between 6 AM PST and 12 AM PST:-

Code:

@ 6:00 AM
@ 7:00 AM
@ 8:00 AM
@ 9:00 AM
@ 10:00 AM
@ 11:00 AM
@ 12:00 AM

So total 7 times, Am I correct?

Yes u are right.. script runs every hour between 6 AM and 12 AM PST..

Thx,

What did you not understand about it?

you set up cron entries by editing a user's cron table. It's a text file, with one entry per line. You do that by crontab -l user -e, or if you're logged in as them, just crontab -e. The text editor used will probably be vi or vim.

Cron entries are lines of text. Type or paste in the text you want, save, and quit.

See man 5 crontab for the exact meaning of the line.

All of this was in earlier posts and linked threads, I'm just regurgitating here.

The line given above will run every minute, for every hour, use an exact minute like 0 instead of *.

Code:

0 6-12 * * *  /absolute/path/to/triggeralert.ksh