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setup hourly crontab

Publisher: Psychz Networks,  October 03,2015

The crontab command comes with all Linux/Unix OS as a default program, it is designed to automate a task that needs to run daily, hourly, monthly or weekly. Setting up cron jobs is not too complicated, it requires a bit of messing around to get it to work how you want.

Before adding jobs to your crontab I recommend running, " crontab -l" to view what other jobs have been pre-configured. The output should be similar to my example shown below.

Example:

0  10 * * 3 wget -P /root/important  https://example.com/file.html
0  13 * * 3 /usr/bin/bash /root/important/program.sh file.html

Now that we know what cron jobs exist on the local Linux/Unix machine, execute "crontab -e" to add jobs to the crontab. we'll proceed first by explaining the example job I have on my Linux machine.

This is the crontab time chart we'll use this as a reference.

* * * * * command to be executed
- - - - -
| | | | |
| | | | ----- Day of week (0 - 7) (Sunday=0 or 7)
| | | ------- Month (1 - 12)
| | --------- Day of month (1 - 31)
| ----------- Hour (0 - 23)
------------- Minute (0 - 59)

0 13 * * 3 /usr/bin/bash /root/important/program.sh file.html

1: Minute (0) Run on zero minutes
2: Hours (10) Run the 10th hour of the day
3: Day (*) Run daily
4: Month (*) Run every month
5: Day of the week(3) Wednesday
6: binary path /usr/bin/bash, and the progam to execute

Run cron job every 10min of every 2 hours

10 */2 * * *  /usr/local/bin/program dosomething /dev/null 1&>2

1: Minute (10) Runs every 10 minutes of every hour
2: Hours (*/2)Runs every two of the day
3: Day (0-31) Runs every day of the week
4: Month (0-12 [12 == December]) Runs every month of the year
5: Day of the week(0-7 [7 or 0 == sunday]) Runs daily.

When you see */20 it usually means that it runs every 20 of every hour day etc....

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