Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-02 Thread Jochen Spieker
Bob Proulx: Jochen Spieker wrote: You still can use PATH = ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games if the crontab belongs to the user 'rwp'. Having a literal '~/' in there works for bash. But it doesn't work for /bin/sh linked to dash for example. Works here: $ exec

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Jochen Spieker wrote: Bob Proulx: Having a literal '~/' in there works for bash. But it doesn't work for /bin/sh linked to dash for example. Works here: $ exec /bin/dash $ cd / $ pwd / $ cd ~ $ pwd /home/jrschulz But that doesn't have anything to do with PATH. You didn't test

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: Jochen Spieker wrote: Bob Proulx: Having a literal '~/' in there works for bash. But it doesn't work for /bin/sh linked to dash for example. Works here: $ exec /bin/dash $ cd / $ pwd / $ cd ~ $ pwd /home/jrschulz But that doesn't have anything

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-02 Thread Jochen Spieker
Bob Proulx: Jochen Spieker wrote: Bob Proulx: Having a literal '~/' in there works for bash. But it doesn't work for /bin/sh linked to dash for example. Works here: … snip But that doesn't have anything to do with PATH. You didn't test PATH containing ~/ in it. You tested cd with ~ as

crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Nicolas Bercher
Hi, 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 Can this be correct or do I face an overlap issue? (I mean since 0 is the begining of the

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Jochen Spieker
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,

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:19:06PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: 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

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Nicolas Bercher
Darac Marjal a écrit : On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:19:06PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: 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

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Jochen Spieker wrote: But beware that you probably need to use /full/path/to/my-script. $PATH is probably not what you expect. Debian uses Vixie Cron which has some nice extensions, such as that */10 you were using. It also allows you to set PATH for all of your cron commands. I always have

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Jochen Spieker
Bob Proulx: # The default vixie-cron PATH is /usr/bin:/bin, overriding the environment. PATH = /home/rwp/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games You still can use PATH = ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games if the crontab belongs to the user 'rwp'. J. -- Nothing is as I

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Jochen Spieker wrote: Bob Proulx: # The default vixie-cron PATH is /usr/bin:/bin, overriding the environment. PATH = /home/rwp/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games You still can use PATH = ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games if the crontab belongs to the user

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: Jochen Spieker wrote: Bob Proulx: # The default vixie-cron PATH is /usr/bin:/bin, overriding the environment. PATH = /home/rwp/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games You still can use PATH = ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games if the