topic Re: crontab help in Operating System - HP-UX

crontab help

rajesh73 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:14:39 GMT

i want to run this command in every 2 minites, please find the below command is right or wrong

2 * * * * /home/rajesh/data.txt

the above script is not executed

Re: crontab help

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:13:56 GMT

>> 2 * * * * /home/rajesh/data.txt

No, that will only run it 2 minutes after each hour (8:02, 9:02, 10:02, etc). If you want it to run every 2 minutes you must specify all the minutes you want it to run. In HP-UX that would be like:

0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58 * * * * /home/rajesh/data.txt

Re: crontab help

rajesh73 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:31:20 GMT

thanks for your quick reply

Re: crontab help

Dennis Handly — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:37:13 GMT

Instead of running every two minutes, you might want to sleep in between iterations.