Re: [Sheflug] Crontab sillyness.

[Paul Branston <nospam [at] rannoch.demon.co.uk>]

Its waiting for the day of the month to match 1-5 or 6-7 .

The day of the week is the last field.

cheers 

Paul

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> 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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