Linux and Unix Schedule Task, help plz.

guitarman · fourth grade Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 728

Hello guys,

I know that in Windows, we can use Schedule Task to set some script to run in some interval of time. But i need help with linux and unix environment.

Do they have similar program in linux and unix to enable me to run some script daily at some point of time? and how to use it?

Singachea · fourth grade Joined: 19 Nov 2005 Posts: 258

Hi brother,

why don't you try to search for some tips? I don't think there is an immediate reply for this question since most people are the slaves of Windows including me as well Laughing

guitarman · fourth grade Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 728

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triumph · second grade Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 94

Yeah cron is great. You can schedule multiple events have it go off at specific time intervals. It is pretty easy to use. I don't know what flavor of linux you are using but you should be able to bring up the man page for cron from the command line as well.

guitarman · fourth grade Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 728

thanks guys for the reply. Indeed I found out about cronjob.. But one question>>

Can cronjob run a website URL?

triumph · second grade Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 94

No but there are other things you can use to do that. I think you can use something like get or curl to do that, and you can have a script that will run as part of a cron job to actually fetch a website.

Cron is just the scheduling mechanism. Just have it run a script to do whatever you want, whenever you want.