Nicolas Bercher: > > I'd like use set up a crontab rule from 6 am to midnight, and crontab(5) > mentions: > field allowed values > hour 0-23 > > Then, I tried something like: > */10 6-0 * * 1-5 my-script
Using this, cron should execute my-script on 06:10, 06:20 … 23:50, 00:00, 00:10
…
00:50. What you probably want is
*/10 6-23 * * * my-script
But beware that you probably need to use /full/path/to/my-script. $PATH
is probably not what you expect.
> As a more generic question: can we define rules that spans hours,
> days, etc. writing ranges "n-m" where m<n?
I cannot tell from reading crontab(5). Try it.
> Cant' find such answers (except by experiencing a lot... and waiting a lot!).
Just try the it with minutes instead of hours.
> Moreover, crontab is happily "installing new crontab" when I use such
> rules, but they don't seem to be treated at all.
You should your job in /var/log/syslog.
J.
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