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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Friday, February 18, 2005 2:07:03 pm | by GreigMcGill | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:50:33 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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!!! Running commands at standard intervals
On most systems, the easiest thing you can do if you simply want your command to be run once an hour, or once a day, or once a week, etc, is to put a script in the corresponding one of the __/etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}__ etc directories. This is a simple [Shell] script, not a crontab(5) file. On most systems, all the "daily" scripts will be run sometime in the wee hours, such as 4am.
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+Something to note is that this is usually done by a script called "run-parts" which seems to ignore files with a "." in their name. This is (imho) a horrible bug.
!!! Running commands at custom times/intervals
If you need to run commands at custom times or intervals, you need to know the crontab(5) line format described in the ManPage. Read that now, if you don't know about it yet.
