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Cronjob in Linux

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I want to have two cronjob as per following routine.
1. First job I want to start at the start of every month.
2. Second job I want at every 4 hours.

Any suggestions

posted Sep 22, 2013 by Salil Agrawal

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crontab to run after reboot

@reboot  scriptname.sh 

every 4hrs

00 */04 * * * scriptname.sh 
answer Sep 22, 2013 by Rajabhaskar
Thanks a lot, what about if I want to run at the 1st day of every month
every 1st of the month
00 00 1 * * scriptname.sh
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