Answer Modify your Tuesday cron logic to execute every other week since the epoch. Knowing that there are 604800 seconds in a week (ignoring DST changes and leap seconds, thank you), and using GNU date: 0 6 * * Tue expr `date +\%s` / 604800 \% 2 >/dev/null || /scripts/fortnightly.sh Aside Calendar arithmetic is frustrating. … Read more
I found my answer to that question at waytocode.com They provide 3 possible solutions to run cron jobs on Windows: Solution-1 using Task scheduler In your Windows 7/windows 2005/2008. Go to Startmenu->All Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Task Scheduler->create Task In the new window: General (Give the Task name and for testing you can select “Run when User is … Read more
You can add to the crontab as follows: #write out current crontab crontab -l > mycron #echo new cron into cron file echo “00 09 * * 1-5 echo hello” >> mycron #install new cron file crontab mycron rm mycron Cron line explaination * * * * * “command to be executed” – – – … Read more
Maybe this can help: Advanced Python Scheduler Here’s a small piece of code from their documentation: from apscheduler.schedulers.blocking import BlockingScheduler def some_job(): print “Decorated job” scheduler = BlockingScheduler() scheduler.add_job(some_job, ‘interval’, hours=1) scheduler.start()
Instead of creating a crontab to run as the root user, create a crontab for the user that you want to run the script. In your case, crontab -u www-data -e will edit the crontab for the www-data user. Just put your full command in there and remove it from the root user’s crontab.
You need to also install cygrunsrv so you can set cron up as a windows service, then run cron-config. If you want the cron jobs to send email of any output you’ll also need to install either exim or ssmtp (before running cron-config.) See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-*.README for more details. Regarding programs without a .exe extension, they … Read more
Possibly the easiest way is to simply do three separate jobs: 55 23 30 4,6,9,11 * myjob.sh 55 23 31 1,3,5,7,8,10,12 * myjob.sh 55 23 28 2 * myjob.sh That will run on the 28th of February though, even on leap years so, if that’s a problem, you’ll need to find another way. However, it’s … Read more
This is how I added a cron job to Elastic Beanstalk: Create a folder at the root of your application called .ebextensions if it doesn’t exist already. Then create a config file inside the .ebextensions folder. I’ll use example.config for illustration purposes. Then add this to example.config container_commands: 01_some_cron_job: command: “cat .ebextensions/some_cron_job.txt > /etc/cron.d/some_cron_job && … Read more
By setting the schedule period to 15 13 * * * you tell Jenkins to schedule the build every day of every month of every year at the 15th minute of the 13th hour of the day. Jenkins used a cron expression, and the different fields are: MINUTES Minutes in one hour (0-59) HOURS Hours … Read more
I’ve used the extremely popular Whenever on projects that rely heavily on scheduled tasks, and it’s great. It gives you a nice DSL to define your scheduled tasks instead of having to deal with crontab format. From the README: Whenever is a Ruby gem that provides a clear syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs. … Read more