Crontab Help

Hey guys,

I'm trying to set up a cron job that will run tomorrow (Thursday), every minute between 5:30 AM and 5:30 PM.

Please let me know if this is possible and if it is, how to do it.

Scott

 

So far, I just set up the hours and tried the following (just to test for today) yet to no avail:

* 18-19 23 1 3 php /var/www/html/timestamper.php

According to cron docs, this should be every minute between 6 and 7 pm on the 23rd day of the first month on Wednesday. The problem isn't that it doesn't execute, the problem is that it does.

So when I change the date to 24, it keeps running. What am I doing wrong?

 

First:

1) Make sure the date is set right on the server, type date, if its wrong fix it.

2) you need three cron entries for this

30-59 5 * * 4 php /var/www/html/timestamper.php
* 6-16 * * 4 php /var/www/html/timestamper.php
1-30 17 * * 4 php /var/www/html/timestamper.php

There you go

So the first one says run this cron job between 5:30-5:59AM on thursdays
The second one days every minute 6am - 4pm on Thursdays
the third one says every minute starting at 5:01-5:30PM

hope that helps.

 

Your example Cron looks right, could be the date is set wrong on the server..

 

linsys: Thanks a ton man. I ran some tests and it looks like I can finally get out of here.