Hi, Crontabs on Linux are setup as:
# m h dom mon dow command Say you want to hit a page every hour you would do something like: # Hit billing page every hour 0 */1 * * * /usr/bin/wget http://mydomain.com/page.cfm?var1=bla Hope this helps. Kind Regards, Nitai On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Jeff Lucido <[email protected]> wrote: > I am finally considering moving an older application which contains a > lot of scheduled tasks over to the CronTab plugin for OBD. I have a > quick question I was hoping could be answered since I do not have much > experience using cron jobs on *nix. Specifically, when are the hourly, > daily, monthly and weekly tasks run? My assumption would at 0:01 for > hourly and 00:00:01 would be the execution time for the daily tasks > and similar for the monthly and weekly. > > The reason I ask is I have a task which needs to run on the first day > of the month within the first hour to gather sales specific > information. Would I be better off running the task the task hourly > and then checking to see what day of the month and what hour it is > currently processing in order to execute my business logic? > > Thanks for the help in advance. > > -JSLucido > > -- > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en -- See for yourself how easy it is to manage files today. Join the revolution! Razuna - Hosted Digital Asset Management Solution http://www.razuna.com/ Razuna - Open Source Digital Asset Management http://www.razuna.org/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/razunahq Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/razunahq Support Platform - http://getsatisfaction.com/razuna -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
