Re: [cobalt-users] [raq2] Any crontab experts?

[Frank Smith <frank@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Did you perhaps use 1,31 8-23 0-2 * * * instead (missing the second comma)?
That will tell it to run on the 0-2 of the month, and 0 isn't a valid value
for that field.
Also to get it to run BETWEEN 8am-11pm, you need:
1,31 8-22 * * * /path/to/command
That way the last run of the day will be 10:31pm

Good luck,
Frank

--On Saturday, January 29, 2000 9:10 PM -0600 Tony <isplists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> I have a mental block with cron.
> What time values & format would I need to put in a crontab file to execute
> this command every 30 minutes between the hours
> of 8am and 11pm every day of the month?
>
> perl -w /home/sites/siteX/cgi-bin/script.pl >
> /home/sites/siteX/web/news/news.html
>
>
> I had this: 1,31 8-23,0-2 * * * but it gave me a bad day-of-month error.
>
>
>
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