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5.1 MasteringLinuxCommandLine-13-Schedular

The document discusses different methods for scheduling jobs in Linux: - at allows one-time execution at a later time. batch is similar but runs when the system is less busy. - cron allows one-time or recurring jobs and uses the crontab file to specify the schedule. The crontab file defines the minute, hour, day of month, month, and day of week that a command will run. - Examples show running a backup script every day at 5:00 and every 5 minutes from 3-12 on the 15th day of months 3, 6, 9, and 12.

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5.1 MasteringLinuxCommandLine-13-Schedular

The document discusses different methods for scheduling jobs in Linux: - at allows one-time execution at a later time. batch is similar but runs when the system is less busy. - cron allows one-time or recurring jobs and uses the crontab file to specify the schedule. The crontab file defines the minute, hour, day of month, month, and day of week that a command will run. - Examples show running a backup script every day at 5:00 and every 5 minutes from 3-12 on the 15th day of months 3, 6, 9, and 12.

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Mastering Linux Command-line

Scheduling Jobs
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Scheduling Jobs
 at at: One-time execution at a later time.

 batch batch: One-time execution at a later time,


when the system is under less load.

 cron
cron: one-time or recurring

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cron & crontab


 cron  daemon that handles cron jobs

root 1386 1 0 09:04 ? 00:00:01 /usr/sbin/crond -n

 crontab  file that contains the instructions to execute a task periodically

Minute Hour Day of the month Month Day of the week Command to execute

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0 = Sunday

Crontab layout 1 = Monday


.
.
7 = Sunday
Command
0-59 1-31 0-7 To Run

Minute Hour Day of the month Month Day of the week Command to execute

0-23 1-12

Purpose Example Meaning


* Any Value Minute: * Every minute
, Value separator Minute: 5,10 5th and 10th Minute
- Range Month: 1-6 First 6 months (Jan thru June)
/ Step values Minute: */5 Every 5th minute
Hour: */4 Every 4th hour
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Crontab layout

Minute Hour Day of the month Month Day of the week Command to execute

0 5 * * * ./backup.sh

*/5 */3 15 3,6,9,12 * ./backup.sh

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