Cron Job

What is cron?

The origin of the name cron is from the Greek word for time.

Hear is an quick example for backing up my system at (01 01) every day.

01 01 * * * /usr/local/bin/rsbu -vbd1 ; /usr/local/bin/rsbu -vbd2

well i presume u dont get most of it. don`t worry i got it covered for you. i will explain each and every step.

First there are 5 places we need to understand those are

• sec 0 - 59
• min 0 - 59
• Hr 0 - 23 in 24 Hr fashion
• day 0 - 30/31
• month 1 - 12
• week 0 - 6 (0 being sunday )


| ............... sec (0 -59)
| | ............. minute (0 - 59)
| | | ........... hour (0 - 23)
| | | | ......... day of month (1 - 31)
| | | | | ....... month (1 - 12)
| | | | | | ..... day of week (0 - 6)
| | | | | |
* * * * * *

Examples

• every year 1st of jan * * * 1 1 *
• every hour 0 59 * * * *
• every day at 12 0 * 12 * * *

Comments

[Ian Pride]

Just like to add that you can repeat jobs at different intervals other than ever min,hour,day,mon,dow.

For example if you want to run a job every 5 minutes you would write:

*/5 * * * * /path/to/bin/or/script

or every 2 horus:

* */2 * * *  /path/to/bin/or/script