topic Crontab every 2 hour in Operating System - HP-UX

Crontab every 2 hour

la_cool — Thu, 20 May 2004 09:23:32 GMT

Hi ,
Could someone assist me with a crontab job,
I have a job which would have to run every 2 hours

Re: Crontab every 2 hour

RAC_1 — Thu, 20 May 2004 09:25:13 GMT

0 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * /your_command

Anil

Re: Crontab every 2 hour

Pete Randall — Thu, 20 May 2004 09:26:30 GMT

You'll need to make a crontab entry that runs the job every hour and then put logic in your script to only run every other time. Touching a file and test for it's presence or absence for example, could work.

Pete

Re: Crontab every 2 hour

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 20 May 2004 09:30:16 GMT

Say what, Pete? Making it a bit more difficult than it needs to be are we? :) Just kidding.

RAC's response will work quite well.

Re: Crontab every 2 hour

RAC_1 — Thu, 20 May 2004 09:31:23 GMT

Disregard my earlier post.
You can user at for this. something like
at -f "script" +2 hour

Anil

Re: Crontab every 2 hour

Pete Randall — Thu, 20 May 2004 09:31:35 GMT

Brain cramp, I guess, Patrick! Obviously RAC has the perfect answer.

Pete (humbly)

Re: Crontab every 2 hour

Roberto Polli — Thu, 20 May 2004 09:32:04 GMT

Hi.
you have to put in crontab something like this:

0 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * command

Peace, R