howto start a perl script only from tuesday to friday at 8.00 am ?

cccc · 03-18-2005, 06:47 PM

hi

howto start a perl script from cron every morning from tuesday to saturday at 8.00 am ?

kind regards
cccc

btmiller · 03-18-2005, 06:58 PM

Sounds like a job for cron -- here's the line you'd add to crontab:

0 8 * * tue-sat /path/to/perl/script

Depending on your cron version, you may have to give a comma separated list of days in the 5th field (some don't understand the tue-sat notation). Reading man crontab will tell you more.

cccc · 03-18-2005, 07:06 PM

sorry, but my cron seems doesn't understand the tue-sat notation.

btmiller · 03-18-2005, 07:29 PM

Then use 2-6 or 2,3,4,5,6 -- I think that will work with about every modern cron.

cccc · 03-19-2005, 04:23 AM

thanks !