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Bookmark or Share- how to create a cron job that runs on the first day of monthHow to: 1 Cron Job every ODD minutes and 1 other every EVEN minutes? 4.
- Why is my crontab not working, and how can I troubleshoot it?Since cron syntax is limited you may decide to place more complex conditions and logic in the batch job itself (or in a wrapper script around the existing batch job). That allows you to utilize the advanced capabilities of your favorite scripting languages, to comment your code and will prevent hard-to-read constructs in the crontab entry itself.
- Setting up a cron job that does a chmod/chown - Server Fault@tvgemert What David said above (and in his answer) regarding paths/relative paths/symbolic paths (~) is CRITICALLY IMPORTANT-- Please spend some time with the cron and crontab man pages and be sure you understand what's going on (if in doubt, create a cron job that does echo "what you want to do" > /tmp/what-i-would-run and look at the results to be sure they're sane -- MUCH less chance of ...
- linux - cron job occasionally not running - Server FaultThe job that's occasionally failing to run is indeed at the last line of my crontab file. I could not find any confirmation this is a real or known bug. # tail -2 /var/spool/cron/postgres * * * * * OTHERJOB 0 21 * * * /pg_backup.sh This is all I have in my /var/log/cron.log
- cron job that runs on the last monday of the monthThrough cron, I was not able to run on the last Monday of every month. I did that through Python. I did that through Python. from datetime import datetime, timedelta import os today=datetime.today() d7d=today+timedelta(days=7) if today.month != d7d.month: os.system('sh /path to shell script')
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