Help with a crontab job!!!

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

i need to schedule a script to run at 6.10AM everyday.I tried to do this way.

#!bin/ksh

10 06 * * 0-6

sh /tmp/ss/script/daily_file_check.sh

And at the command prompt I did

>crontab -e cron.txt

I'm not sure whether this is the right way.

Can anyone please tell me how to do this step by step?

thanks a lot,
kumar

2

Hi,
You have mentioned it right,but one change...
As you have mentioned everyday then it should be
10 6 * * * <scriptname>

Thanks
Raghuram

3

I dont know it seems to not work at all...

Can you tell me another way to work around it?.I want this script /tmp/sa/daily_file_check.sh to be executed everyday at 6.10AM

4

Hi,
I find one problem in your cron.txt
you have used sh <scriptname>

instead of that use
6 10 * * * /tmp/ss/script/daily_file_check.sh

Thanks
Raghuram

5

remember, cron jobs have a much reduced
environment. (esp. $PATH)
no .profile or anything like that.

So you may need to explicitly set them.