Top "Cron" questions

Cron is a time-based job scheduler running as a daemon process in Unix-like computer operating systems.

Cron job every three days

Is it possible to run a cronjob every three days? Or maybe 10 times/month.

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Cron and virtualenv

I am trying to run a Django management command from cron. I am using virtualenv to keep my project sandboxed. …

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A cron job for rails: best practices?

What's the best way to run scheduled tasks in a Rails environment? Script/runner? Rake? I would like to run …

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Run CRON job everyday at specific time

Right now i am running my cron job everyday at 3.00PM 0 15 * * * But I want to run my cron job twice …

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Cron jobs and random times, within given hours

I need the ability to run a PHP script 20 times a day at completely random times. I also want it …

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How to set cron job url for codeigniter?

I am using Codeigniter for my website. I have to use cron job to run one of controller function. I …

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Run Cron job every N minutes plus offset

*/20 * * * * Ensures it runs every 20 minutes, I'd like to run a task every 20 minutes, starting at 5 past the hour, is this …

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How to conditionally enable or disable scheduled jobs in Spring?

I am defining scheduled jobs with cron style patterns in Spring, using the @Scheduled annotation. The cron pattern is stored …

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How to schedule to run first Sunday of every month

I am using Bash on RedHat. I need to schedule a cron job to run at at 9:00 AM on first …

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How to simulate the environment cron executes a script with?

I normally have several problems with how cron executes scripts as they normally don't have my environment setup. Is there …

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