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News From the Interweb » Using Cron to Automate Linux Tasks — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:36:08 +0000

[...] Using Cron to Automate Linux Tasks [...]

By: Gunman

Gunman — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:32:40 +0000

You are welcome, I guess you left the second one

“[...]Enter the cron entry to run the myscript.sh every day at 7am. This entry will look like:

* 7 * * * ~/myscript.sh

Now hit the Esc key [...]”

in it for future reference? :-P ;-)
Keep up the cool articles and spread the word about Linux :-) .

By: jack

jack — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:22:03 +0000

Gunman: Thanks for catching that typo. You are correct a “*” means cron is to run all numbers between first and last. Since minutes are seen as 0-59 a * would run all of them. Unless you want a script to run 60 times every day at 7 am… ;-)

By: Gunman

Gunman — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:14:20 +0000

Just for Info:

“[...] the cron entry to run the myscript.sh every day at 7am. This entry will look like:

* 7 * * * ~/myscript.sh”
This will execute “~/myscript.sh” EVERY minute from 7:00am to 7:59am.

“0 7 * * * ~/myscript.sh”
Will only execute it once at 7:00am.

greetz
Gunman

By: Backup MySQL Databases In Linux Regularly

Backup MySQL Databases In Linux Regularly — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:08:24 +0000

[...] post Using Cron to Automate Linux Tasks by Jack got me thinking that some users might be interested in a practical example. The following [...]

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:21:38 +0000

This is concise and useful, thanks!

By: Daniel Pataki

Daniel Pataki — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:34:59 +0000

Crontab is awesome because it allows to execute a script, as opposed to a predefined set of options. Great explanation!

Those of you who have websites and are running on a linux server (Bluehost for example) usualyl will have cron options in your Cpanel too!

I was a bit afraid of this at first, but I realized that it’s just abotu time (days, minutes, etc), all the actual programming can be done somewhere else, so you can execute a php script every 5 minutes for example.