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tyler
tyler

Reputation: 424

Cronjobs after each other

I have a lot of php-scripts which I would like to execute as cronjob. It´s important that those scripts are executed in the right order and are not running at the same time. How can I set up cronjobs which run after each other?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3001

Answers (1)

Keith Thompson
Keith Thompson

Reputation: 263257

Each cron job runs when it's scheduled to run, regardless of whether any other cron jobs happen to be running.

Just make a cron job that executes several commands sequentially:

* * * * * command1; command2; command3

The command (in this case command1; command2; command3) is executed by /bin/sh (or by a shell you can specify by setting SHELL in your crontab). /bin/sh, or any shell worthy of the name, knows how to execute commands sequentially.

If there are a lot of commands you can put them into a shell script and execute that from cron.

Upvotes: 7

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