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viperhansa
Virtuoso
Oct 08, 2015

CRON app or some help appreciated..

Hi all..

 

Is there a easy way to add actions to cron?

 

some files i want to execute every hour

some other files once a week

some once a day

 

some are php files and some ar perl files.

 

since i sux at cron i would gladly buy a beer for som help!  :-)

 

regards

 

Hans

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  • Hi all..

     

    I have been exprementing with cron and i need some input.

    If i put this in a file in cron.d:

    # Runs plexwatch scanner every minute

    # As stated
    * * * * * /opt/plexWatch/plexWatch.pl

     

    Then i find this in the log:

    Oct 11 22:56:01 Hoa-Nas-Pro cron[2211]: (*system*plexwatch) RELOAD (/etc/cron.d/plexwatch)
    Oct 11 22:56:01 Hoa-Nas-Pro cron[2211]: Error: bad command; while reading /etc/cron.d/plexwatch
    Oct 11 22:56:01 Hoa-Nas-Pro cron[2211]: (*system*plexwatch) ERROR (Syntax error, this crontab file will be ignored)

     

     

    My second cron attempt is put in cron.hourly and looks like this:

    #
    # Api pull off km's
    # every hour, 5min past whole hour.
    5 * * * * /data/ieexkb/cron/cron_api.php

     

    This results in the log:

    ct 11 23:01:01 Hoa-Nas-Pro cron[2211]: (*system*cron_api) RELOAD (/etc/cron.hourly/cron_api)
    Oct 11 23:01:01 Hoa-Nas-Pro cron[2211]: Error: bad minute; while reading /etc/cron.hourly/cron_api
    Oct 11 23:01:01 Hoa-Nas-Pro cron[2211]: (*system*cron_api) ERROR (Syntax error, this crontab file will be ignored)

     

    What am i doing wrong?? Help please!  :-)

     

    regards

     

    Hans

     

     

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