command to execute a script periodically

[Jeffrey Shannon]

I have written a sript to send the outputs of useful commands to a file, and to e-mail the file in case the server were to go down. However, I'd like to execute this script approximately once or twice a week. Is there a command that I can put into the script to do this?

[Craig Rants]

Jeffery,
Use the cron utility.

As root enter the command crontab -e

at the end of your vi session enter

# "Description of script"
00 3 * * 5 "Absolute Path of Script" > /dev/null 2>&1

Good Luck,
C

[Craig Rants]

Forgot to tell you that this would execute the script at 3am on the 5th day of the week which is Friday.

C

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,
Cron is the tool for this

man crontab for more details and look for examples.
It is pretty simple to setup.

Goodluck,
-USA..

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Jeff,

You can use cron to schedule execution of a command/script. Use man crontab for more help.

Regds

[harry d brown jr]

Jeffery,

A more useful approach would be this: Make a make_recovery tape every night - takes less than an hour and saves countless hours of headaches when you do have server issues. Also, mirror your rook disk. If you need help with these commands, then post a new question.

live free or die
harry

[Krishna Prasad]

cron or at will work...

I would use cron

[Dave La Mar]

Jeffrey -
I built the following based on tips from the forum. Insure the admin has your login in the cron.allow file. Then crontab -e, and input your min.,hour,date, month, day,and script to execute.

# min hour date month day command
# 0-59 0-23 1-31 1-12 0-6 redirect the output
# 30 6 * * * /home/dlamar/work/omaha/omahaftp
0 7 * * 1-5 /home/dlamar/work/bklogs/userbk.log
30 14 * * 5 /home/dlamar/work/bklogs/makrec.log


dl