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How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every morning?

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Last Update: April 07, 2007

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June 03, 2005 05:01:00

mallem

RE: How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every morning?

by using cron job

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June 13, 2005 00:11:21

RE: How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every morning?

Schedule the Job using crontab..From the command prompt perform a man on crontab and then type in crontab -e to create a new job

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July 05, 2005 05:45:14

Rakesh Gautam

RE: How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every morning?

do first

crontab -e and then add a line like below

0 4 * * * name of the command

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October 03, 2005 02:37:49

ravikdesh

Member Since: October 2005 Contribution: 3

RE: How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 ever...

Step 1. Set environemen variable EDITOR vi if not set

Step 2. Give command crontab -e

Step 3. Add following entry at the end

0 4 * * * <Your command to run at 4:00 am morning>

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October 30, 2005 03:54:32

mchauhan

Member Since: October 2005 Contribution: 19

RE: How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 ever...

This is done by 'at' command in HPUX and Sun solaris or 'cron' command can be used too. Mukesh Chauhan -Bangalore

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March 25, 2007 20:12:21

cmanne

Member Since: January 2006 Contribution: 49

RE: How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every...

1. There are two ways to schedule a script to run exactly at 4:00 AM every morning

a: CRONTAB
b. AT (at command executes only once)

Crontab format
* * * * * <command>
<minute> <hour> <date> <month> <day_of_the_week> command
<0-59> <0-23> <1-31> <1-12> <0-7> command

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April 07, 2007 04:31:40

Jyotiranjan Mohanty

RE: How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every...

1st step
$ cat > cmdfile
//<Minute> <Hour> <Day Of Month> <Day Of Week> <Command>
0 4 * * <Command>
Ctrl d

2nd Step

crontab cmdfile

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