Crontab can be used to schedule jobs in Unix via Unix SAS. you can schedule in crontab without creating the executable as well. you can mention the physical path of your program to be run.
To access crontab login to Unix and type crontab -e (Edit mode). This is a VI Editor. Press Esc Key and I for insert. Press Esc Key and x to delete.
Syntax for crontab is
* * * * * command to be executed
┬ ┬ ┬ ┬ ┬
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ └───── day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 )
│ │ │ └────────── month (1 - 12)
│ │ └─────────────── day of month (1 - 31)
│ └──────────────────── hour (0 - 23)
└───────────────────────── min (0 - 59)
for example:
05 * * * 0-6 nohup /SAS Installation Path/ /my progam/ss.sas
This would run the program every week day at after 5 mins .
Cheers from India!
Manjeet