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3.8. Software Collection cronjob Support
With your Software Collection, you can run periodic tasks on the system either with a dedicated service or with cronjobs. If you intend to use a dedicated service, refer to Section 3.4, “Managing Services in Software Collections” on how to work with initscripts in the Software Collection environment.
Procedure 3.8. Running periodic tasks with cronjobs
- To use cronjobs for running periodic tasks, place a
crontabfile for your Software Collection in the/etc/cron.d/directory with the Software Collection's name.For example, create the following file:%{?scl_prefix}crontab - Ensure that the contents of the
crontabfile follow the standardcrontabfile format, as in the following example:0 1 * * Sun root scl enable software_collection '
/opt/provider/software_collection/root/usr/bin/cron_job_name'where software_collection is the name of your Software Collection, and/opt/provider/software_collection/root/usr/bin/cron_job_nameis the command you want to periodically run. - Add the file to your spec file of the Software Collection package:
SOURCE2: %{?scl_prefix}crontab - Install the file into the system directory
/etc/cron.d/by adjusting the%installsection of the Software Collection package's spec file:%install install -p -c -m 644 %{SOURCE2} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{?scl:%_root_sysconfdir}%{!?scl:%_sysconfdir}/cron.d/
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