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Old 05-10-2012, 04:40 AM   #1
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run a cron every second day


Hi guy's

I've been searching a procedure on how can I run a command every 11:59 midnight every in every 2nd day interval. sample today is monday it will run on 11:59 pm and the run will be tuesday of 11:59 pm.


I've been looking for samples in google but I havent found any. just hourly, daily, weekly and monthly schedules.


Thanks in advance
 
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Old 05-10-2012, 04:45 AM   #2
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sample today is monday it will run on 11:59 pm and the run will be tuesday of 11:59 pm.
It means that you want to run the command everyday at 11:59 PM.

Here is an example site for you - cronjob exmpales.
Now you can try with the help of those examples by understing cron and cronjob.
 
Old 05-10-2012, 07:43 AM   #3
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maybe run it every 48 hour? see http://www.adminschoice.com/crontab-quick-reference
and I'm just assuming you mean monday and wednesday?
 
Old 05-10-2012, 07:44 AM   #4
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I also found this: http://www.absolutewillynilly.com/we...ob-run-2-days/
 
Old 05-10-2012, 02:03 PM   #5
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There is also a trick to let the cronjob store the unix time in seconds after a completed job in a timestamp log file just let it run each day and If the difference is less than 172000 seconds you let it skip the job not updating the timestamp file. And If it is greater than 172000 you let it run and overwrite the timestamp log with a new one
 
Old 05-10-2012, 02:15 PM   #6
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Why not just:

Code:
  .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
#  |   .------------- hour (0 - 23)
#  |   |   .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
#  |   |   |   .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
#  |   |   |   |  .----- day of week (0 - 7) (Sunday=0 or 7)  OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
#  |   |   |   |  |
#  *   *   *   *  *  command to be executed
   *   *   */2 *  *  /your/command/here.sh
 
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Old 05-10-2012, 06:22 PM   #7
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With a timestamp based script it doesn't care if you restarted the machine.
Added an example script for desktop usage for running a backup job each 48 hours even if you don't use the computer for 3 days it will take action on that thirth day. This script just needs to be called by cron.daily
skip_a_day.cron.sh.tar.gz

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Old 05-11-2012, 02:21 AM   #8
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with the every second day */2 option in crontab it shouldn't be hard to do either
 
Old 05-11-2012, 10:54 AM   #9
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with the every second day */2 option in crontab it shouldn't be hard to do either
That's if you don't mind a little glitch in the sequence following each month that has an odd number of days.
 
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