Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 23:10:03 +0100 From: HiMyNameIsIlNano <kappei84@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Program order in crontab Message-ID: <CAC=ypSXkOrEwStfsUhAHKUOGvKFSM80VRF=f6t5yCoYNYBgZOw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20191229160338.07aa34c0@scorpio> References: <20191229160338.07aa34c0@scorpio>
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Il dom 29 dic 2019, 22:03 Gerard E. Seibert <jerry@seibercom.net> ha scritto: > In a standard 'crontab', if I have three programs as show below, do they > run in order as listed or all at one time, or something else? Does each > program finish before the next one starts? > > */5 * * * * /usr/home/gerard/Scripts/Program1.sh > */5 * * * * /usr/home/gerard/Scripts/Program2.sh > */5 * * * * /usr/home/gerard/Scripts/Program3.sh > > Thanks > > -- > Jerry > Hi, from what I gather from this thread https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-July/011538.html the order is bottom up, but I would not bet on that. If you need to ensure that your scripts are run in a given order I would write a wrapper script to orchestrate the tasks and avoid that your logic breaks in case the underlying cron implementation changes. >
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