Cron Job Selective Timing

kyosuke · 03-01-2006, 03:00 PM

Hi,

I have a cron job set up that runs every ten minutes. I want to further define its schedule so that it only runs from 7am til 1am, or to put it another way, I want it to NOT run from 1am til 7am. I'm wondering how to put in a code for this in the crontab, as when I tried to put 7-1 for the hour, it rejected it saying 'bad hour'.

Thanks,
-K.W.

pljvaldez · 03-01-2006, 03:15 PM

Can't you just:

0-59/10 0,7-23 * * * /home/myscript.sh etc etc

i.e. 0-59 minutes at 10 minute intervals, at the hours of midnight (0) and 7am-11pm (with the 11pm hour included because you're doing the 0-59 minutes)

DarkElf109 · 03-01-2006, 03:23 PM

Try the following:

0-59/10 0,7-23 * * * <command>

Should work.

kyosuke · 03-01-2006, 09:52 PM

Seems to have worked. Cron accepted it anyway. I'll just have to check my logs later and see if it has.

Thanks,
-K.W.