Contrab schedule question?

richikiki · 07-15-2006, 09:57 AM

Hi everybody

I want to know if the following line works:

Code:

00,05,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 20-05 * * 1-6 . [something]

But it is wrong crontab should always be ascendant, isnt it?.
It has to be place on 2 lines as follow:

Code:

00,05,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 20-23 * * 1-5 [something]
00,05,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 0-5 * * 2-6 . [something]

It is suppouse to work from monday at 20h and finish at 5h the next day. From Monday to Saturday morning.If Im not wrong the first 2 lines run the crontab also on saturday from 20h to midnight.
Could anyone confirm it?.

Regards

MensaWater · 07-15-2006, 10:40 AM

Odd - yesterday afternoon I read this and couldn't process it. Today it makes perfect sense to me.

It isn't because its ascendant that you need two lines. Its because you have two different sets of days. 12:00 AM (0) after 11:00 PM (23) is not the same day. Therefore something that you want to run at 11 PM THEN at Midnight would be described as two different days.

What you wrote is correct for the time period you describe.

I wonder at the dot (.) in your line though. What is its purpose? You can't source something in cron for later jobs like you can from the command line.