Cron Help

[Joe689]

I need cron to assist me in scheduling a command syntax to complete every hour. The command syntax is "python zoneclient.py Jlee40 ********** leecomp.us" This command processes a dns change. The zoneclient.py lies at /home/admin. Could someone possibly give me the text syntax needed or file that i could possibly insert to cron.hourly. I would like to avoid using crontab unless it is necessary.

I already tried creating a file within cron. hourly that said
PATH=/home/admin
python zoneclient.py Jlee40 ********** leecomp.us.


Thanks
Joe

 

[thedaver]

file '/etc/cron.hourly'

#!/bin/sh
export PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin"
# modify PATH above as required
python /home/admin/zoneclient.py ....[snip].....


The appropriate crontab entry is

01 */1 * * * admin python /home/admin/zoneclient.py ...[snip]...

This runs at '01' minutes past the hour, every hour (*/1) every day, as user 'admin'
Be sure to restart crond after you save the change.

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