crontab or crond

[Cristiano Soares]

Hi all. im having some problems trying to use crontab or cron.d. I want to run a shell script-1 from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm, and then run the shell script-2 from 11:01pm to 6:59 pm. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks a lot.

Cristiano.

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 28.06.2004 schrieb Cristiano Soares um 20:22:
> Hi all. im having some problems trying to use crontab or cron.d. I want to run a shell script-1
> from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm, and then run the shell script-2 from 11:01pm to 6:59 pm. Does
> anyone know how to do this? Thanks a lot.
>
> Cristiano.

man 5 crontab

*/5 19-22 * * * script-1
*/5 0-18,23-0 * * * sctipt-2

Alexander

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 12:22 PM 6/28/2004, Cristiano Soares wrote:
> Hi all. im having some problems trying to use crontab or cron.d. I want to 
> run a shell script-1 from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm, and then run the shell 
> script-2 from 11:01pm to 6:59 pm. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks 
> a lot.

Scripts don't run for four hours and then stop... they run until they 
finish and then stop. You cannot control which script is currently running 
with cron; that is, you cannot *stop* a script with cron, you can only 
start it. Do you want the script to be run *every single minute*? How often 
do you want the script to be started?

Cheers,

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 28.06.2004 schrieb Alexander Dalloz um 20:38:
> */5 19-22 * * * script-1
> */5 0-18,23-0 * * * sctipt-2

Sorry, second line must be

*/5 0-18,23 * * * script-2

The scripts are running every 5 minutes, every day.

Alexander

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[Bryan Hepworth]

----- Original Message -----
From: Cristiano Soares
To: [e-mail]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 7:22 PM
Subject: crontab or crond

Hi all. im having some problems trying to use crontab or cron.d. I want to
run a shell script-1 from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm, and then run the shell
script-2 from 11:01pm to 6:59 pm. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks a
lot.

Cristiano.

Hi Cristiano

You didn't specify how many times you wanted it to run during those times.
If you let me know I'll bash out a crontab for you no worries!

One of the other things you might want to think about is whether you need it
logged or not. My email crontab runs every 5 minutes and does get logged so
that I can track down problems, you might not want it to, however I find it
handy for nailing transcient problems or users  trying to jam 10MB through.

So let me know how often and I'll send it across to you.

Bry

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[Phil Schaffner]

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 12:39 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 12:22 PM 6/28/2004, Cristiano Soares wrote:
> > Hi all. im having some problems trying to use crontab or cron.d. I want to 
> > run a shell script-1 from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm, and then run the shell 
> > script-2 from 11:01pm to 6:59 pm. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks 
> > a lot.
>
> Scripts don't run for four hours and then stop... they run until they 
> finish and then stop. You cannot control which script is currently running 
> with cron; that is, you cannot *stop* a script with cron, you can only 
> start it. Do you want the script to be run *every single minute*? How often 
> do you want the script to be started?

Well, if they are scripts that loop indefinitely could use one cron
entry to start the script at the beginning of the interval and another
to kill it at the end.  Look at scripts in /etc/init.d for examples of
dealing with PIDs.

Another interpretation of the question could be that you want one or the
other available during the period.  That could be done by a cron
sequence of "ln -fs script-1 script-name", "ln -fs script-2 script-
name", "rm -f script-name".

Need to clarify the question.

Phil

[Cristiano Soares]

Hi. Thanks for the reply. Here is my situation:

I have a server that has a HTB shaper running and my HTB scripts are called
rc.filter and rc.filter2. The first one(rc.filter) has all ports opened, and
the second one(rc.filter2) has the e-donkey and bittorrent ports
closed(4661, 4661, 8668, ....). What I want to do is to run the first
script(rc.filter) from 12:00am to 7:00pm so anyone can download and uso
anything during that time, and run the second script(rc.filter2) from 7:01
to 11:59(the rest of the day), so people wont kill the bandwidth at the
point that others cant even browse. Thanks in advance.

Cristiano

----- Original Message -----
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Subject: Re: crontab or crond
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cristiano Soares
> To: [e-mail]
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 7:22 PM
> Subject: crontab or crond
>
> Hi all. im having some problems trying to use crontab or cron.d. I want to
> run a shell script-1 from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm, and then run the shell
> script-2 from 11:01pm to 6:59 pm. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks

a
> lot.
>
> Cristiano.
>
> Hi Cristiano
>
> You didn't specify how many times you wanted it to run during those times.
> If you let me know I'll bash out a crontab for you no worries!
>
> One of the other things you might want to think about is whether you need

it
> logged or not. My email crontab runs every 5 minutes and does get logged

so
> that I can track down problems, you might not want it to, however I find

it
> handy for nailing transcient problems or users  trying to jam 10MB

through.
> So let me know how often and I'll send it across to you.
>
> Bry
>
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[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 29.06.2004 schrieb Cristiano Soares um 2:23:
> Hi. Thanks for the reply. Here is my situation:
>
> I have a server that has a HTB shaper running and my HTB scripts are called
> rc.filter and rc.filter2. The first one(rc.filter) has all ports opened, and
> the second one(rc.filter2) has the e-donkey and bittorrent ports
> closed(4661, 4661, 8668, ....). What I want to do is to run the first
> script(rc.filter) from 12:00am to 7:00pm so anyone can download and uso
> anything during that time, and run the second script(rc.filter2) from 7:01
> to 11:59(the rest of the day), so people wont kill the bandwidth at the
> point that others cant even browse. Thanks in advance.
> Cristiano

So you have 2 events. Please read "man 5 crontab" - it contains all the
information you need. Execute rc.filter at 12:00am and rc.filter2 at
07:01pm.

Alexander

[Tom Mitchell]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 03:22:59PM -0300, Cristiano Soares wrote:
> Hi  all.  im  having  some problems trying to use crontab or cron.d. I
>    want  to  run  a shell script-1 from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm, and then run
>    the shell script-2 from 11:01pm to 6:59 pm. Does anyone know how to do
>    this? Thanks a lot.

Does the second script depend on the first being finished?

Does the first need to be killed at 11:01
and does the second need to be killed at 6:59 (AM not pm I think).

Can they overlap by a min or two?