CronJob

jboy4 · 02-27-2012, 10:24 AM

Hi i am new to cronjob or crontab and i have made a perl script i would like to run every Thursday.

0 14 5,10,15,20,25 1-12 * /home/APPL/whatever.pl

Is this correct? 2pm every month on 5th,10th,15th,20th and 25th of that month.

anomie · 02-27-2012, 12:12 PM

An excerpt from the crontab(5) manpages:

Code:

cron(8) examines cron entries once every
minute.  The time and date fields are:

           field         allowed values
           -----         --------------
           minute        0-59
           hour          0-23
           day of month  1-31
           month         1-12 (or names, see below)
           day of week   0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)

Instead of 1-12, you could use *.

ratotopi · 02-27-2012, 01:46 PM

10 1 * * 4 /bin/yourscript.pl

The above line in your crontab will run yourscript.pl, every Thursday at 1:10 AM

jboy4 · 02-27-2012, 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ratotopi

10 1 * * 4 /bin/yourscript.pl

The above line in your crontab will run yourscript.pl, every Thursday at 1:10 AM

Thanks. ill have to put this to work!