How can I schedule a script to run every 10 minutes

[akelabanda]

Hi All

Is there a way to run a script every 10 minutes on a solaris box.

I'm afraid I will not be able to use crontab.

Can I use the "at command" for the same ?

I tried running by scripts as -

at now "+ 10 minutes"
>sh <script.sh>
><EOT>

But it just runs once.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Raj

 

[Annihilannic]

Why can you not use a crontab?

0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /your/script

Annihilannic.

 

[akelabanda]

I dont have privileges..

Raj

 

[KenCunningham]

I guess you could put a sleep 600 at the end of your script, then get it to run itself again.

 

[marrow]

each user account can have its own crontab
(to access/create: crontab -e),
Therefore can you run scripts from your own user account?

However there is a time option on at command. See "man at

 

[akelabanda]

Thanks Guys

But, it looks like 'at' is useful for one time executions only.

I'll try crontab.

Cheers

 

[KenCunningham]

I'm afraid I will not be able to use crontab

So that's not the case after all then?

 

[coffeysm]

If you can't use cron could you do something like this?

Make a wrapper script that calls that one every 10 minutes

#!/bin/sh
while true
do
your_script_name_here
sleep 600
done

 

[kHz]

Use perl and create a daemon.

 

[Clairvoyant1332]

You can also have the script call "at" on itself at the end to reschedule. That way, you don't have to worry about it getting killed off while its sleeping.

 

[akelabanda]

Thanks guys.

My problem's solved.

Since I had to run the scheduled job on five different servers, I put a controller script which runs ssh to kick off the 'at' schedule on the other servers once.

I've put a while loop and a sleep on the controller script itself, such that it starts every 10 minutes.

Thanks for all your inputs. Appreciate it.

Cheers
Raj