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Old 07-25-2013
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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 ?
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Old 07-25-2013
Code:
# minute (0-59),
# |      hour (0-23),
# |      |       day of the month (1-31),
# |      |       |       month of the year (1-12),
# |      |       |       |       day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).
# |      |       |       |       |       commands

i often use the above self explainatory comments at the very beginning of my crontab file.

For your case, If you specify */5 in the 1st field, it runs every 5 minutes .
Code:
*/5 * * * * /home/scripts/backup.sh

# 3  
Old 07-25-2013
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Quote:
Originally Posted by codemaniac
Code:
# minute (0-59),
# |      hour (0-23),
# |      |       day of the month (1-31),
# |      |       |       month of the year (1-12),
# |      |       |       |       day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).
# |      |       |       |       |       commands

i often use the above self explainatory comments at the very beginning of my crontab file.

For your case, If you specify */5 in the 1st field, it runs every 5 minutes .
Code:
*/5 * * * * /home/scripts/backup.sh

Thank you for your reply, but I am not sure how to code start[trigger] time of the cronjob to 8:30 P.M in there. Can you please suggest ?
Last edited by mohtashims; 07-25-2013 at 03:34 AM..
# 4  
Old 07-25-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by mohtashims
Thank you for your reply, but I am not sure how to code start time of the cronjob to 8:30 P.M in there. Can you please suggest ?
Do you want your command/script to run only @8:30 pm once daily?
# 5  
Old 07-25-2013
Yes Daily @8:30 PM. Can you provide the crontab entries ?
# 6  
Old 07-25-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by mohtashims
Yes Daily @8:30 PM. Can you provide the crontab entries ?
okay, the below cron entry will get file once daily at 8:30 pm.

Code:
30 20 * * * /home/test/scripts/example.sh

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