System Administration Guide

PERIODIC_SCHEDULE Variable

The value of PERIODIC_SCHEDULE follows the same format as the crontab file. Specify the variable value as a string of five fields enclosed in double quotation marks, each field separated by a space:


"minutes hours day-of-month month day-of-week"
Table 54-3 Periodic_Schedule Variable Values

Variable 

Value 

minutes hours

Specifies start time in number of minutes after the hour (0-59) and the hour (0-23) 

day-of-month

Specifies the day of the month when ASET should be run, using values from 1 through 31 

month

Specifies the month of the year when ASET should be run, using values from 1 through 12 

day-of-week

Specifies the day of the week when ASET should be run, using values from 0 through 6; Sunday is day 0 in this scheme 

The following rules apply:

The default entry for PERIODIC_SCHEDULE variable causes ASET to execute at 12:00 midnight every day:


PERIODIC_SCHEDULE="0 0 * * *"