[linux] Cronjobs ?

[Snell]

I made a cron job to execute a script every minute.

* * * * * "/home/user/crontest.sh"

The script:

date >> "/home/user/test.txt"
sleep 10m

As you can see, the script output the date and time to the text file "test.txt" and wait for 10 Minutes.

Here is the output:

Thu Sep 16 19:06:01  2010
Thu Sep 16 19:07:01  2010
Thu Sep 16 19:08:01  2010
Thu Sep 16 19:09:01  2010

However, I want the execution in the script to be complete before re-executing the script again.

that's is the output should be like this:

Thu Sep 16 19:06:01 2010
Thu Sep 16 19:00:01 2010
Thu Sep 16 19:10:01 2010
Thu Sep 16 19:20:01 2010

Any one knows how this can be done ??


(I've made this just as example but I'll use the script for some other purposes)

Snell Reviewed by Snell on 16th Sep 2010. [linux] Cronjobs ? I made a cron job to execute a script every minute. * * * * * "/home/user/crontest.sh" The script: date >> "/home/user/test.txt" sleep 10m As you can see, the script output the date and time to the text file "test.txt" and wait for 10 Minutes. Rating: 5