cron job

[امتیاز]

Dear All,

I am newbie in the vast field of linux.

I have a perl scrip sys.pl which i can easily execute in command line by typing

./sys.pl

i.e
imtiaz@linux-q01x:~> cd folder
imtiaz@linux-q01x:~/folder> /.sys.pl

now i want to set up a cron job for this script to execute automatically on every week on Monday at 1:00 PM

can you please tell me how to set up a cron job for this

I am using SUSE 10.2

[infoshirish]

Hey,
Edit your crontab file by giving crontab -e and edit the file exactly as
0 13 * * monday /usr/bin/myperlscript -n 1 -b -S

'0' and '59' (minutes of the hour). 13 is your 1 pm(hours of the day)
This command will execute every day at 1 pm. Note that the script which you wanted to run under crontab should be in your /usr/bin/myperlscript or any other where you have installed perl.

[sharik_pahwa]

try
#crontab -e
add a line as :

0 13 * * mon ./sys.pl

else refer to man 5 crontab for further details.

[امتیاز]

Hey,
Edit your crontab file by giving crontab -e and edit the file exactly as
0 13 * * monday /usr/bin/myperlscript -n 1 -b -S

'0' and '59' (minutes of the hour). 13 is your 1 pm(hours of the day)
This command will execute every day at 1 pm. Note that the script which you wanted to run under crontab should be in your /usr/bin/myperlscript or any other where you have installed perl.

if i have more than one scripts in that directory myperlscript it mean that all will be set to cronjob? But in my case I just want to set one i.e sys.pl

please can you explain these tabs
-n 1 -b -S

[امتیاز]

try
#crontab -e
add a line as :

0 13 * * mon ./sys.pl

else refer to man 5 crontab for further details.

Will this automatically search ./sys.pl or i have to specify the director y address where my script is located?

[infoshirish]

Hey,
Well first cross check it by running some test script of perl in that directory under crontab. If success then try to run any script you want.