[wplug] Cron Job - Working hours vs. Off hours

Gentgeen gentgeen at linuxmail.org
Sun Sep 24 14:57:08 EDT 2006


I want to set up a cron job that will run "foo" every 5 minutes during 7
to 6 on weekdays, but run "foo" every hour the rest of the time.  Do I
have this right:

--- BEGIN CRONTAB --------
# Runs every 5 minutes during working hours on weekdays
*/5 7-18 * * 1-5 foo

# Runs every hour during none working hours on weekdays
* 19-6 * * 1-5 foo

# Runs every hour during weekends
* */1 * * 0,6 foo

--- END CRONTAB ----------


Or is there maybe a more eloquent way to do this? (btw this is just a
user crontab, not a system wide cron (crontab -e as user not root)


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