On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:31 PM, kumaresan chandran
<kumaresanchand...@gmail.com> wrote:
> * * 01 * * /usr/bin/bbpurne
>
> These script will execute every month of the first day fully 24 hours or
> only one time a day its execute.
It will run repeatedly on the 1st of the month. Probably not something
you intended.
If you want to run something *once* a month, use:
0 0 1 ** user /path/to/script
Alternately you can use this more readable syntax:
@monthly user /path/to/script
See "man 5 crontab" as Arun has suggested.
- Raja
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