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Utku Dalmaz
Asked: 2009-11-24 09:27:03 +0800 CST

how to create a cron job that runs on the first day of month [duplicate]

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There are fields on my server's control panel like this

Minute - Hour - Day of month - Month - Day of the week - Command

How can I create a cron job runs on first day of the month with this fields?

cron

6 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This will run the command foo at 12:00AM on the first of every month

    0 0 1 * * /usr/bin/foo

    This article describes the various fields, look to the bottom of the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

    To add this to your cron file, just use the command

    crontab -e
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  2. Will run /usr/bin/foo at 12:10am on the first day of the month.

    10 0 1 * * /usr/bin/foo

    Will run /usr/bin/foo at 3:10am on every day.

    10 3 * * * /usr/bin/foo

    See http://www.scrounge.org/linux/cron.html

    updated the crons, it was a copy paste error, thanks Joy Dutta!

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  3. use following:

    @monthly     /home/user/backup.sh

    more information:

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  4. Check for a directory on your server at /etc/cron.monthly. If the directory exists, odds are your system is set up to run any executables it finds in that folder on a monthly basis. Just drop your script (or symlink it) in /etc/cron.monthly. Also, make sure your script is executable.

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  5. Something like:

    0 0 1 * * command /directory/file.ext
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  6. Check this out: Class: PHP Cron

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