[plug] Cron Jobs

[Joel Fraser]

What i was after was a cron job that would run webalizer ever night or
hour at sat 11:59pm or something like that but would also like to right
some other cron jobs and just basically fiddle around with it

Cheers Joel

--- Jason Nicholls <jason at mindsocket.com.au> wrote: > G'day,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 12:22:42PM -0400, Steege, Phil E wrote:
> > It is pretty easy using the crontab command.
> > 'crontab -l' will show the contents of your crontab file listing the
> > scheduled jobs.
> > 'crontab -e' will allow you to edit it.
> > 'man crontab' should be all you need.
> 
> I'm a little uncertain whether he was after help with setting cron jobs
> or
> writing scripts for cron to execute.
> 
> > > From: Joel Fraser [mailto:joel231 at yahoo.com] 
> > > I was wondering if anyone has a site that could help me with writing
> 
> > > cron jobs, as i havent done this before and need a little help with
> it.
> 
> What exactly are you trying to achieve, or just messing about?
> Here is simple example.
> 
> First a script, lets say it's in a file called "~/bin/simple.sh":
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> echo "the time is" `date` >> ~/simple.output
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> Next up, a crontab entry (crontab -e):
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> # run at 30mins past the hour, every hour, every day, every month
> 30 * * * *      ~/bin/simple.sh
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> What we've done here is write a shell script to create output like:
> 
>     the time is Thu Jul 11 00:37:15 WST 2002
> 
> And have cron run this every hour. After a while the file would look
> like:
> 
>     the time is Thu Jul 11 00:30:00 WST 2002 
>     the time is Thu Jul 11 01:30:00 WST 2002 
>     the time is Thu Jul 11 02:30:00 WST 2002 
>     the time is Thu Jul 11 03:30:00 WST 2002 
>     the time is Thu Jul 11 04:30:00 WST 2002 
>     the time is Thu Jul 11 05:30:00 WST 2002 
> 
> 
> "man 5 crontab" for info on setting crontab entries.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jason Nicholls
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