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We’ve been showing people how to automate various tasks in Linux for quite a while now. Today, we would like to briefly show people how to automate tasks in Linux using Cron jobs.
You can execute crontab if your name appears in the file /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow. If that file does not exist, you can use crontab if your name does not appear in the file /usr/lib/cron/cron.deny. If only cron.deny exists and is empty, all users can use crontab. If neither file exists, only the root user can use crontab. The allow/deny files consist of one user name per line.
Crontab is pretty straight forward… Minute, Hour, Day of the Week, Day of the Month, Month are all options that you can set…
* * * * * command to be executed
- - - - -
| | | | |
| | | | +----- day of week (0 - 6)
| | | +------- month (1 - 12)
| | +--------- day of month (1 - 31)
| +----------- hour (0 - 23)
+------------- min (0 - 59)
0 3 * * * /usr/local/sbin/dumpdatabases
This is my scheduled database backup. This task is scheduled to run every day at 3AM. After the jump is a breakdown of everything.
|
Minute |
Hour |
DOM |
Month |
DOW |
Full File Location |
|
0 |
3 |
* |
* |
* |
/usr/local/sbin/dumpdatabases |
Minute: 0-59 are valid
Hour: 24 hour clock (army time)
Day Of Month: 1-31 are valid
Month: 1-12 are valid (1 is January, 2 is February)
Day Of Week: 0-6 are valid (0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday)
Full File Location: Make sure you put the FULL path to the script you’re automating.
What is the * for? This means to run it on every option for that field. In this example it is run every day of every week of every month at 3:00AM.
To collect the cron execution execution log in a file:
30 18 * * * rm /home/joe/tmp/* > /home/joe/cronlogs/clean_tmp_dir.log
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Anyone involved with cron job scheduling might find this resource useful.
Cron Sandbox at HxPI is an interactive webpage where you can play with crontab command strings.
Enter your ‘m h D M Dw’ parameters and immediately see all the times cron would run your job in the coming days/weeks.
Newcomers to cron job scheduling get a safe place to learn crontab commands and try examples from tutorials.
System Administrators get a forward schedule to help manage system loading.
http://www.hxpi.com/cron_sandbox.php
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