[wplug] crontab problems

Chris Romano romano.chris at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 10:32:04 EST 2005


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:21:58 -0500, Eric C. Cooper <ecc at cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:06:48AM -0500, Chris Romano wrote:
> 
> > # crontab -l
> > ...
> > * 9-16 * * Mon-Fri /home/chris/script.sh >> /tmp/tlog.txt 2>&1
> 
> On Debian, at least, "man 5 crontab" says that ranges of names are not
> allowed.  So try
>     * 9-16 * * 1-5 /home/chris/script.sh >> /tmp/tlog.txt 2>&1
> instead.
> 

>From "man crontab"
...
 # at 11:00 a.m. on the 4th and on every mon, tue, wed
 0 11 4 * mon-wed date
...

I guess debian has a different version.

Thanks,
Chris


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