Posts Tagged crontab
Running Cron on Selected Days of the Week
I can never remember how to setup cron.
This example shows how to set up a job to run on selected days of the week.
MAILTO=babbysandpants@bogusdomain.com # minute hour "day of month" month "day of week" # 5 past midnight on mon-fri (sun 7or0, mon-sat is 1-6) 5 0 * * 1-5 /home/list/cron.sh # this one runs at 9:53AM mon to friday # 53 9 * * 1-5 /home/list/cron.sh # this one runs at 2:10 am mon,wed,fri 10 2 * * 1,2,5 /home/list/cron.sh
1 monday
2 tuesday
3 wednesday
4 thursday
5 friday
6 saturday
0,7 Sunday
Running Cron Every X Minutes
Posted by james in GNU/Linux, Linux Tools on January 2, 2009
I keep forgetting the correct format of cron entries to have a command run every three minutes
To do it every three minutes you need to make the syntax */3 not simply 3 (which means on the 3rd minute of every hour)
# m h dom mon dow command */3 * * * * /home/user/bin/mycommand
This cron job now runs as I want…
# m h dom mon dow command
The above is the format eg.
m = minutes
h = hours
dom = day month
mon = month
dow = day of week
command = command