My Workday » Crontab http://www.goworkday.com Let's talk TECH Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:28:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Crontab http://www.goworkday.com/2008/06/13/crontab/ http://www.goworkday.com/2008/06/13/crontab/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:21:40 +0000 Admin http://www.goworkday.com/?p=8 Crontab syntax : A crontab file has five fields for specifying day , date and time followed by the command to be run at that interval. * in the value field above means all legal values as in braces for that column. The value column can have a * or a list of elements separated [...]]]>

Crontab syntax :
A crontab file has five fields for specifying day , date and time followed by the command to be run at that interval.

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* in the value field above means all legal values as in braces for that column.

The value column can have a * or a list of elements separated by commas. An element is either a number in the ranges shown above or two numbers in the range separated by a hyphen (meaning an inclusive range).

Example:
55 23 * * * $HOME/automation/getStats.sh > $HOME/automation/logs/cron.logs 2>&1
* to avoid getting emails on Linux from cron, you can disable by appending    ’>/dev/null 2>&1′ .



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