[Sheflug] Crontab sillyness.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

This should be an easy one to fix.

I don't like getting out of bed in the morning, so I've written a short
script to turn the volume up on my box and start XMMS playing some loud
music to get me up in the mornings.
 I've put the script into a crontab (using crontab -e as my user - baz).
 The script works on it's own, and it did start at 0705hrs when my
crontab was:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILTO=baz
HOME=/home/baz

05 7 * * * /home/baz/wakeup.sh

However, I'd rather have a lie-in on Sat and Sun, so I changed the times
to:

05 7 1-5 * * /home/baz/wakeup.sh
00 9 6,7 * * /home/baz/wakeup.sh

And it hasn't run on Sat or Sun. Dunno what will happen tomorrow,
unsurprisingly.

According to man 5 crontab, 0 and 7 is sunday and values can be entered
as ranges or comma seperated values.
As far as I can tell, what I've got should work.

 What have I done wrong?

Cheers.

Baz.
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