I want to run my cron job every 2 hours everyday which starts from 20.13pm. Cron should run at 12.30,2.30,4.30 and so on. Thanks in advanceYou can find the documentation with man crontab. Here you need to execute your command when minute is 30 so let
I am writing a cron job to my crontab file using following java code PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter("/var/spool/cron/crontabs/multi","UTF-8"); String cronTabString="25 13 * * * sudo wget --tries=0 \"https://some-url.com
I've below command in crontab, when I run this command in terminal it works fine but when I run this in crontab am getting the following error * * * * * cd /home/path/application && RAILS_ENV=development ./bundle exec rake namespacefolder:rake_fil
I am trying to get a Python script to run hourly using crontab however I cannot seem to get it to work. The Python program runs fine and completes if I manually run it from terminal. $ python /home/pi/Documents/Project/Base_Prog.py My crontab is setu
Been trying to figure this one out for hours... I've got the cron setup, and it runs when it's suppose to. 36 22 * * * php -f /home/user/public_html/shop/shell/indexer.php --reindexall Outputs Error in argument 3, char 2: no argument for option - Usa
i have move_files.sh and installed it in crontab. Actually job is working because it's printing those echo. And creating log file. But it's not calling that PHP script. Interesting thing is if i run it by manually it's calling php script and working
Relatively new to running cron jobs in Centos6, I can't seem to get this Python script to execute properly. I would like this script to execute and then email me the output. I have been receiving emails, but they're empty. So far, in Crontab I've tri
I have one shell script in crontab which is executing jar file. Jar file is moving files from one server to another server. In peak hours it is taking more then 10 minutes(more then crontab entries). How can I make sure that cron job will not execute
I have a very simple script in my crontab that I want to run every day. It is located in /home: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40 Apr 15 08:01 kill_slony_stop_sql.sh It has execute permission and here is the content: #!/bin/bash slon_kill;rcpostgresql stop a
I'm trying to run a abash script through crontab and every time I try to, the script never runs and I get an error that reads: "[[: Not Found" I'm currently using a while loop with the following coding: SHELL/=bin/sh padtowidth=2 START=0 END=15
I am using a modified version of WordPress 3.3.1 and have been alerted to the fact that scheduled posts have been "missed" and are not posting automatically on time, meaning they have to be manually posted. In the Posts admin in WP, the post sho
I was able to get my script to successfully email me at regular intervals with the help of another user here. My next question, is that I'd like for it to ONLY email me if the output is not null. I have a nawk set up to email me the output, and the s
I am trying to run some php with curl inside of it every so often so that it will retrieve information from a website and then insert it into my database. I am able to get the cronjob to work, and the php works because I have it to send me an email e
i have a machine set in GMT. i would like to have a cron task scheduled from 6AM to 5PM in PST, which is GMT-8. gmt time zone. typical. 00 06-17 * * * now -8 produces a crontab bad hour error. 00 22-09 * * * the following is accepted or should i say,
Possible Duplicate: In the bash shell, what is " 2>&1 "? I recently saw this in a crontab: 5 * * * * perl /abs/path/to/my/script.pl >> /abs/path/two/my/script-log.txt 2>&1 If I'm reading this correctly, it runs script.pl ever
I have a linux shell script that when run from command line works perfectly but when scheduled to run via crontab, it does not give desired results. The script is quite simple, it checks to see if mysql-proxy is running or not by checking if its pid
I have to run daily cron. Cron must running time will be morning 11 AM to evening 7 PM. In this given time cron must run at every 15 mins daily. same thing after in night cron must run at every hour? Is this possible with linux cron scheduling type.
I'm implementing an application that would check if the time is 4 or 6 or 12 hours after the data was inserted in the database. So for example: The data was inserted 1pm, then it's already 5pm (so this is 4 hours after the data was inserted), my appl
I have crontab-like scheduler. Time definition "MM HH WD MD M": MM- minutes HH- hours WD- days of week MD - days of month M - months WD, MD and M allow multiple entries and each of params can be null, for example: ^ ^ 0, 1 ^ ^ means exucution ev
I am doing the following in a shell script: tar cvzf mytar.tgz * It works fine when I run the shell script from a terminal. When it runs the shell script from a cron job using crontab it looks like it is archived because the tgz file is there but the
I am inserting a cron instruction via crontab -e Pico is the editor But the line I am inserting is going into wrap mode and I can't save my cron file because the subsequent line is in violation of the time settings. Has any one had this problem?If yo
i need to set a crontab from a php script. i know that it can be set by system("echo '* * * * * echo \"Hello world\"' >> cron.crontab"); system("crontab cron.crontab"); //cron.crontab is the file name of the crontab &qu
hey guys, im trying to run a python script after every 5 minutes using cron, inside the script is a django import import django when running the crontab i get mailed the following error ImportError: No module named django this is what the crontab fil
I run 2 python scripts from crontab at the same time each 30 min, e.g. 00,30 6-19 * * 0-5 /.../x.py site1 */3 6-19 * * 0-5 /.../y.py site2 At the beginning the both scripts make import of a module that prints some data to a log, e.g. name = os.path.b
Is it possible to execute from crontab a php file inside a folder which is protected with htaccess and how?.htaccess is a way to limit access from outside (the Internet) and is enforced by the apache. So there's nothing preventing the crontab to run
I'm using perl cron, and I want to make a rule like this run every xx min/hours starting at yy:yy time (until the end of time) How would I put this into a cron string? perl:cron seems to use the same syntax as regular cron so a regular cron string sh
I'm aware of timing issues in Javascript, how its not exact/off by milliseconds etc, but I need something to at least attempt to do browser-based scheduling. In terms of features, I'm thinking something along the lines of scheduling patterns describe
we need run one function periodically in Java web application . How to call function of some class periodically ? Is there any way that call function when some event occured like high load in server and so on . what is crontab ? Is that work periodic
I have a bash script that does ssh to a remote machine and executes a command there, like: ssh -nxv
[email protected] echo "hello world" When I execute the command from a command line it works fine, but it fails when is being executed as a part of
I've got a few dozen Linux machines running cron and I'd like to put the crontabs in some sort of revision control system. For source control I use Mercurial (hg), so that'd be ideal, but if there's some other system that is better suited to this tas
