topic Re: crontab in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

crontab

fergani — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:17:35 GMT

Hi everyone,
I have a batch file and I want it to be executed every after 30 minutes.
please could anyone provide me with the format should I put it inside crontab.
bye.

Re: crontab

Steven Schweda — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:50:01 GMT

Which part of "man crontab" was unclear?

http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51B_HTML/MAN/MAN1/0565____.HTM

Re: crontab

Kapil Jha — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:32:47 GMT

30 * * * *
this would run script after every 30 mnts.

maybe below thing help

#minute (0-59),
#| hour (0-23),
#| | day of the month (1-31),
#| | | month of the year (1-12),
#| | | | day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday).
#| | | | | commands
0 2 * * 0,4 /etc/cron.d/logchecker

man crontab.....

BR,
Kapil+

Re: crontab

Dennis Handly — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:47:43 GMT

>Kapil: 30 * * * *
this would run script after every 30 minutes.

No, this runs it every hour. One possibility is (there are 29 others):
0,30 * * * *

Re: crontab

Kapil Jha — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:56:56 GMT

thanks for correcting Dennis :)
thats very dumm mistake :o)

BR,
Kapil+