Hello,

I need to setup a cron job which should be executing every five minutes,
in Linux I could do "*/5 * * * * blah" but this does not work on Solaris.

Do I need to type all the minutes when I wish to run the job or is there
any other way to do it?

I am using Solaris 10u2.

Tomi

Uzytkownik "Tomi Hakala" <tomi.hakala@clinet.fi> napisal w wiadomosci news:45e7f177$0$31518$39db0f71@news.song.fi...

> Hello,
>
> I need to setup a cron job which should be executing every five minutes,
> in Linux I could do "*/5 * * * * blah" but this does not work on Solaris.
>
> Do I need to type all the minutes when I wish to run the job or is there
> any other way to do it?



try: 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * blah

MaW

Mariusz Wolek wrote:
> try: 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * blah

But this is exactly what I would like to avoid ..

Tomi Hakala wrote:
> Mariusz Wolek wrote:
>
>> try: 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * blah
>
>
> But this is exactly what I would like to avoid ..


Maybe you should use Linux?

Tomi Hakala <tomi.hakala@clinet.fi> wrote:
> Mariusz Wolek wrote:
>> try: 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * blah
>
> But this is exactly what I would like to avoid ..

Why? Just because the line is longer?


Then put a line

[ $(($(date +%M) % 5)) -eq 0 ] || exit 0

in your script and let it run with cron every minute.

--
Daniel

Richard B. gilbert wrote:
> Maybe you should use Linux?

And you should grow up.

Daniel Rock wrote:
> Why? Just because the line is longer?

There may be need to iterate execution interval and it is a bit difficult
to do with '0,5,10..'.

> Then put a line
> [ $(($(date +%M) % 5)) -eq 0 ] || exit 0
> in your script and let it run with cron every minute.

That will do, thanks!

Tomi Hakala wrote:
> Richard B. gilbert wrote:
>
>> Maybe you should use Linux?
>
>
> And you should grow up.

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is not!

Daniel Rock <v200709@deadcafe.de> wrote:
> Tomi Hakala <tomi.hakala@clinet.fi> wrote:
>> Mariusz Wolek wrote:
>>> try: 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * blah
>>
>> But this is exactly what I would like to avoid ..
>
> Why? Just because the line is longer?
>
>
> Then put a line
>
> [ $(($(date +%M) % 5)) -eq 0 ] || exit 0
>
> in your script and let it run with cron every minute.

But note that cron will generate three lines in /var/cron/log for each
execution, thus your log will rapidly grow ...

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Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Univ. Goettingen
Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany

In article <45E835A9.90902@comcast.net>,
"Richard B. gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:

> Tomi Hakala wrote:
> > Mariusz Wolek wrote:
> >
> >> try: 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * blah
> >
> >
> > But this is exactly what I would like to avoid ..
>
>
> Maybe you should use Linux?

Tomi, I think Richard's post was meant as true advise. Solaris is not
Linux, as you may have guessed. If you want the syntax of Linux's cron,

you can port the crond from Linux to Solaris and run it or
run Linux instead of Solaris or
setup your cron job using traditional cron syntax.

If you want to get huffy about "growing up", perhaps it's time to do so.

Youth is _so_ wasted on the young.

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