how to schedule script without using cron 2

[adaaje]

Hi guys,

I would like to run my script every day at 8.00 am and 10.30 am except saturday and sunday, but I don't have cron installed in my account.

How do I do that ?

Thanks in advance

 

[PHV]

Ask your sysadmin to create the cron job for you.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[feherke]

Hi

I don't have cron installed

Is not possible that there is a [tt]cron[/tt] clone instead of traditional [tt]cron[/tt] ? There are a lot of job schedulers, more efficient then [tt]cron[/tt]. For example we use fcron.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[mrn]

man at

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/

 

[Annihilannic]

Or how about annicron :

#!/bin/ksh

TIMES="0800 1030"
DAYS="1 2 3 4 5"
JOB="uptime"

while true
do
        sleep 50 # check at least once a minute
        for DAY in $DAYS
        do
                if [[ "$(date +%w)" -eq "$DAY" ]]
                then
                        for TIME in $TIMES
                        do
                                if [[ "$(date +%H%M)" -eq "$TIME" ]]
                                then
                                        $JOB &
                                        # make sure we do
                                        # not run twice
                                        sleep 20
                                fi
                        done
                fi
        done
done

Replace uptime with your job of course, and run this script in the background, probably best with nohup.

Annihilannic.

 

[adaaje]

Hi Annihilanic,

what a great script ? But I have some questions for you...
when you check every 50 secs.. why not 60 secs (=1 mnt)?

and why
$JOB & sleep 20

not
$JOB [only]

Thx mate...

 

[Annihilannic]

Well, if you check every 60 seconds, there is a very small chance on a busy system that it will check once at 07:59:59, and the next time at 08:01:00, so your job would not run.

$JOB & runs the job in the background, so that the annicron keeps running, in case the jobs overlap or take a long time, etc. You can take out the & of course if you want, and that would make sure they would never overlap.

sleep 20 is to make sure it doesn't run a job twice in one minute, e.g. at 08:05 and 08:55.

Annihilannic.

 

[adaaje]

Thx a lot man...
Is there any chance you would go to Sydney ?
If yes, let me know. I'll treat you some lunch/dinner

Have a star...

 

[Annihilannic]

Would you believe I'm actually planning to move to Sydney as soon as I can!

Annihilannic.

 

[adaaje]

Really ??? where are you now ?? when??

 

[adaaje]

And UNIX job is quite pick up in here, I can refer you to my agent if you like lol...

 

[mrn]

Know any good agents in NZ, planning on relocating from UK next year.

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/

 

[adaaje]

Hmm.. why not moving to Sydney ??
better money, better living, in NZ is so quite heheh...

Sorry mate, no idea in NZ.