Cron

Updated Mar 27, 2021 ·

Tasks

Schedule a cron job to automatically write "hello world" to syslog at every 10th minute after the hour. Ensure message is written with "notice" priority.

Solution

Create a script that echoes "hello world" to syslog with the desired priority.

#!/bin/bash

### syslog_hello.sh
logger -p local0.notice "hello world"

Make sure the script is executable:

chmod +x syslog_hello.sh

Edit the cron jobs for the current user:

crontab -e

Add the following line to schedule the script to run every 10th minute after the hour:

10 * * * * /path/to/syslog_hello.sh