lr_cron(1)

lr_cron1

Run the perodical jobs configured in a dlfstore.

Usage

lr_cron period store

Overview

lr_cron is designed to be called in a crontab(5) entry. period should be "hourly", "daily", "weekly", "monthly" or "yearly". store should be the full path name of the DLF Store.

lire(1) should be used to configure periodical jobs in the store.

To run jobs as scheduled by lire(1), you will need to setup cron jobs. For each schedule you use, you should configure a cron job to be executed according to that period.

Here is a crontab(5) entry that will make sure that all possible schedules are supported in the /home/flacoste/myStore DLF store:

 05  *  *  *  * lr_run lr_cron hourly  /home/flacoste/myStore
 15 01  *  *  * lr_run lr_cron daily   /home/flacoste/myStore
 15 02  *  * 02 lr_run lr_cron weekly  /home/flacoste/myStore
 15 03 01  *  * lr_run lr_cron monthly /home/flacoste/myStore
 15 04 01  01 * lr_run lr_cron yearly  /home/flacoste/myStore

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Version

$Id: lr_cron.in,v 1.37 2006/07/23 13:16:32 vanbaal Exp $

Releases

7 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0
  6. 7
  7. Arch

Author

Francis J. Lacoste <[email protected]>

From lire 2.1.1-8 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.