how do you cron a script 2

[gman10]

Hi all-

Extremely new to HP -UX, just curious on how you generally assign a script to a CRON.. this seems easy but am not quite getting it..

thx for any help at all

gt

 

[bi]

As in other flavors of Unix, login as the user who you want to run the script, type crontab -e and set up the script to run.

This assumes that the user is not on the cron.deny file or, if it exists, IS on the cron.allow file.

Also, try doing a man crontab for additional information.

 

[gman10]

bi-

thanks, good info and I appreciate it!

gt

 

[jocasio]

Say your script is called run_time and it's location is /home/me/ you would type in:

30 20 * * 1-5 /home/me/run_time > /home/me/run_time.log

the first value(30) signifies the minutes, the next hours, days ,month, way of the week. So in the example I'm setting this to run at 9:30pm monday thru friday.

HTH,

jocasio

 

[bi]

Here is something I put in my crontabs so I don't have to look up the fields in the crontab all the time:

# Crontab format:
#
# 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


The first field is minutes, second hours, etc.

Thanks for the star!

 

[gman10]

Thanks to bi and jocasio!! People.. this really does help, hve a great day!


GT