How to run a shell script evey day automatically at a particular time

krevathi1912 · 09-21-2007, 07:29 AM

I have written a shell script(.sh file) which will automatically start the server of my application.
I want to run this script every day automatically at a certain time without the manual intervention.
How can i do it???????????

Can any one help please

Regards
Revathi

MS3FGX · 09-21-2007, 07:34 AM

You would use cron for that. Your distribution likely already has a directory called /etc/cron.daily, where you can place scripts that will run every day.

To edit the time the scripts are executed, run "crontab -e" as root to adjust the crontab file.

jdiggitydogg · 09-22-2007, 11:53 AM

you can also run cron jobs as any user. if you want your job to run with root permissions, then edit root's crontab. otherwise, login as whatever user (that has the necessary permissions for your job) and edit their crontab.

/etc holds the system cron files; slightly differnt than user's crontabs.

crontab -l will list the crontab for the current user.
see man crontab for other variations

Nimoy · 09-22-2007, 01:15 PM

man cron <Enter>

Very useful information can be gathered by running man against any command you wish to explore.

You will find a nice tutorial on scripts here:

http://www.linuxcommand.org/index.php

And very relevant cron information here:

http://blog.spikesource.com/crontab.htm