Examples

One convention for making scripts to run commands in their own PAG, as specified by the Running Unattended Commands page, is to create the ~/scripts directory, and place your scripts there. Then, make a cron configuration file that looks something like this.

PATH=/afs/hcoop.net/common/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

09 0 * * 0   run-in-pagsh --fg clean-mail           ~/scripts/clean-mail
11 0 * * 0   run-in-pagsh --fg remove-tmp           ~/scripts/remove-tmp
12 0 * * 0   run-in-pagsh --fg weekly-comment-check ~/scripts/weekly-comment-check
*/10 * * * * run-in-pagsh --fg make-git-projects    ~/scripts/make-git-projects

The PATH line is needed so that you have access to run-in-pagsh. Make sure you don't try to reference any other environment variables like $HOME, because cron will not expand them properly.

The first cron command runs something 9 minutes after midnight (aka the "0th" hour), every day of the month, every month, provided that it is Sunday (aka the "0th" day of the week). In short: run something at 12:09 every Sunday.

The second and third commands are similar.

The fourth command runs something every 10 minutes.


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