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neutron68

Post subject: want to change script scheduling in crontab

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:39 pm

Joined: Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:26 pm

Posts: 804

Location: Minneapolis, MN

I want to change the scheduling of the "pretty" script from 2 times per hour to one time per day. (I'm talking about the mythrename.pl script which creates the contents of the /myth/pretty directory.)

My stock crontab file looks like this:

Code:

# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file.
# This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user  command
 17 *    * * *   root    run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
 25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
 47 6    * * 7   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly
 52 6    1 * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly
 #

 # run "pretty" script at 5 and 35 after every hour
 5,35 * * * *    root    nice -n 19 /usr/local/bin/mythrename.pl --link /myth/pretty

If I want it to run only 1 time per day (at 5 minutes after midnight for example, is this how my new crontab file would look?

Code:

# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file.
# This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user  command
 17 *    * * *   root    run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
 25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
 47 6    * * 7   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly
 52 6    1 * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly
 #

 # run "pretty" script at 5 and 35 after every hour
 5 0    * * *    root    nice -n 19 /usr/local/bin/mythrename.pl --link /myth/pretty

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Kirk

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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:16 pm

Joined: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:28 am

Posts: 143

Location: Brisbane, Australia

Yep.

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neutron68

Post subject: accidental double posting - sorry!

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:15 am

Joined: Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:26 pm

Posts: 804

Location: Minneapolis, MN

This thread was accidently created during the editing of a thread. It is essentially a duplicate of the other post (which is essentially the same).

Sorry about this.

Cecil, feel free to zap this thread, since it was a mistake.

(I used the back button in my broswer to go back and edit the title of the thread and it created a new thread.)

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