setting crontab job -Redhat7.2

[enterume]

In the crontab job, how can i set run a crontab run on every friday, saturday, and sunday, between 1pm to 8pm , every 2 minute?

Is this the correct way?

0,2,4,6,8...58 13-21 * * 5-7 $HOME/bin/ >2>&1

?


Thanks
LOuis

[gigowiz]

Originally posted by enterume

0,2,4,6,8...58 13-21 * * 5-7 $HOME/bin/ >2>&1


The execution time designation looks good except for the weekdays. They are numebred 0-6 so you want "4-6" instead of "5-7". And I hope the ellipses means you're going to continue the comma delimited numbers for the minutes. That'll certainly make a long entry.


Hank

[gigowiz]

OOPS!!!

I mean you want "0,5,6" for the weekdays. Sunday is 0, Monday is 1, etc.

Sorry.

Hank

[jstarkey]

You can also use:

*/2

rather than:

0,2,4,6,8...58

in the minutes field to tell it to run every 2 minutes. Looks much cleaner that way :)