topic Re: cron job in Operating System - Linux

cron job

Chakravarthi — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 05:43:35 GMT

How to add more than 72 charecters in a single line in crontab??

Re: cron job

Georg Tresselt — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:01:53 GMT

Put them in a script and call that one in crontab.

Re: cron job

Chris Xu — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:28:14 GMT

I think you can put more than 72 characters in a single line. I could add a lot more in mine. However, that would look a little messy and does not make sense. So it is best to put them in a shell script when there are lots of stuff to add to your crontab. And then run the script in the cronntab like it is a command. Remember to make your script executable by using "chmod" otherwise it won't run.

Chris

Re: cron job

Ivajlo Yanakiev — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:40:07 GMT

Did you try it ?
I think that it can be done

Re: cron job

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:33:57 GMT

Hi,

it looks to me like you do not have the flag set in your terminal emulation for autowrap, which enables you to write more than 80 chars.

greetings,

Michael

Re: cron job

Deepak_22 — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:10:15 GMT

there's a way in linux to make a task run in intervels

0-59/5 * * * * /path/script >> dev/null 2 >&1

will run the script in 5 minutes interval
as opposed to 0,5,10,15,.....55 for the minutes interval