* * * * * command to be executed - - - - - | | | | | | | | | +----- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0) | | | +------- month (1 - 12) | | +--------- day of month (1 - 31) | +----------- hour (0 - 23) +------------- min (0 - 59)
line in crontab file like below removes the tmp files from /home/someuser/tmp each day at 6:30 PM. 30 18 * * * rm /home/someuser/tmp/* Changing the parameter values as below will cause this command to run at different time schedule below : min hour day/month month day/week Execution time 30 0 1 1,6,12 * -- 00:30 Hrs on 1st of Jan, June & Dec. : 0 20 * 10 1-5 --8.00 PM every weekday (Mon-Fri) only in Oct. : 0 0 1,10,15 * * -- midnight on 1st ,10th & 15th of month : 5,10 0 10 * 1 -- At 12.05,12.10 every Monday & on 10th of every month : --- On Fri, 6/27/08, smart monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: smart monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [LinuxVadaPav] Crontab set in Unix To: [email protected] Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 9:48 AM Hi Alll, I want to set cron in Unix on Alternate friday of every Month for generate some report.can anybody suggest me how to do it ? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
