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publicus

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Registered: 2014-01-01

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[RESOLVED]How to use cron and how does cron.daily directory gets used?

Hello,

I have a script that I'd like to run every day (at night.)  I was thinking of modifying /etc/crontab and then putting the script into /etc/cron.daily in order to run this once a day... However, I don't know one thing, would this cause my script to run twice?  Once is enough.  I know I can set it to run at 23:30 at night in crontab, but does its location in cron.daily predisposes it to run again at a later time?

Last edited by publicus (2014-05-16 15:50:32)

loafer

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Re: [RESOLVED]How to use cron and how does cron.daily directory gets used?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/cron

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lucke

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Re: [RESOLVED]How to use cron and how does cron.daily directory gets used?

If you put it in cron.daily and add an entry to crontab, it should be run twice.

karol

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Re: [RESOLVED]How to use cron and how does cron.daily directory gets used?

There's also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … ctionality

publicus

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Re: [RESOLVED]How to use cron and how does cron.daily directory gets used?

Thanks all.  lucke, that's what I'm suspecting.