Re: [CentOS] Cron job? or something else? help..

Hi,

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 09:46 +0200, Roland Roland wrote:

Hello,

i have a certain issue at hand that i'm trying to solve.

there's a certain command that i need to execute 10 minutes after boot. how can i set that? im not very expert with cron jobs but can it be done that way? i know that cronjob works on specified time but how can i set it to run with '10 min after startup" as a condition ?

There's no such option in cron. But the easiest way to do this is to put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local like this :

sleep 600 && <command>

this waits 600 seconds and (if succesfully) executes your command

Regards,

Michel