crontrigger

Is there a way in Java to find the "Last Fired Time" from a Cron Expression. E.g. If now = 25-Apr-2010 10pm, cron expression "0 15 10 ? * *" (quartz) should return me 25-Apr-2010 10:15am Note: 1) I do not care if we use standard cron expressions (like Unix and Quartz) or less popular ones if they can fetch me the correct "Last Fired Time" 2) Also it is not literally "Last Fire time" as the trigger may not have fired, but logically there should be a way of telling when it (would have) fired last. cron-utils is an opensource Java library to parse, validate, migrate crons that supports the

Hi i want to take database backup at daily mid night using cron job... and the name of database backup should append with current date... the format of backup file should be mydata_yyyy_mm_dd.sql ... backup file should be placed in /root directory something like 0 0 * * * /path/to/mysqldump ... > /path/to/backup/mydata_$( date +"%Y_%m_%d" ).sql should work. Please read man date man 5 crontab Create a cron.sh file with this content: mysqldump -u root -p{PASSWORD} DBNAME 2>> "/filename_`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`.sql" And give the Read permission or full access permission for that cron.sh file. and add