Posts tagged cron
Can I run cron jobs on HPC login nodes?
- 19 June 2017
For system administration reasons users are not allowed to shedule and
execute periodic jobs on DKRZ HPC systems using the cron utility. Our
recommendation is to use the functionality provided by the workload
manager Slurm for this purpose. With the option --begin of the
sbatch command you can postpone the execution of your jobs until
the specified time. For example, to run a job every day after 12pm
you can use the following job script re-submitting itself at the
beginning of the execution:
A variety of different date and time specifications is possible with
the --begin option, for example: now+1hour, midnight,
noon, teatime, YYYY-MM-DD[Thh:mm:ss], 7AM, 6PM
etc. For more details see manual pages of the sbatch command: