Greetings,

I am in the process to setup an entry in the crontab to run once every Sundat at 2:00 AM - I would like to know what's the crontab entry syntax look like.

I do know that the Crontab entry format, but not sure what to do for the Month or Day-of-Week tab.
(Min Hour Day Month Day-of-Week format)

Thanks,

J

Just put * for month. Day of week should be 7. Do this command in a terminal for full details:

http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm
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CRONTAB (6 fields)
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FILES:

LINUX

1) /etc/cron.allow
2) /etc/cron.deny


Fields:-

Minute 0-59
Hour 0-23
Date 1-31
Month 1-12 (or names)
Day of Week 0-6 (or names) [ 0 is for Sunday ]




EXAMPLES

Example 1: Cleaning up core files

This example cleans up core files every weekday morning at
3:15 am:



Example 2: Mailing a birthday greeting

[ displays terminal 1 ]




Example 3: Specifying days of the month and week

This example

would run a command on the first and fifteenth of each
month, as well as on every Monday.

To specify days by only one field, the other field should be
set to *. For example:

would run a command only on Mondays.






crontab -e username Edit your crontab file, or create one if it doesn't already exist.
crontab -l username Display your crontab file.
crontab -r username Remove your crontab file.






CRONTAB Restrictions
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You can execute crontab if your name appears in the file /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow. If that file does not exist, you can use crontab if your name does not appear in the file /usr/lib/cron/cron.deny.

If only cron.deny exists and is empty, all users can use crontab. If neither file exists, ONLY the root user can use crontab. The allow/deny files consist of one user name per line

So, the syntax should be looking like this;
00 04 * * 0 /usr/my_file > /tmp/my_log.log 2>&1

The syntax above should execute every Sunday at 4:00 AM and log it in my log file, correct?

Thanks for your help!!

J

Thank you!!

You guys are the best!!

J