i'm trying to do some stuff automatically every 8 Weeks, so i had open a new user crontab like this one:
crontab -e
0 9 * */2 1-5 do_this_stuff
# do it every 2 month on monday till friday at 9:00 am
This should do the job every 2 month on monday till friday on 9:00 am, but i does not. It is doing the job evey week once. Don't get it. What i'm doing wrong?
Running System is a latest debian.
regarding http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Cron it should run fine
The Anwer is, cron can't do a job randomly on a random day in a month. I had to change my crontab to: 0 9 1 */2 * do_sm_stuff -- this runs every two Month always on the first Day in a Month
thank you Igor
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We have jobs that are scheduled to run 1 time per day - every day
We do maintenance every 3rd Sunday of the month.
Up until now every month we have manually adjusted the cron to make the job run a little later in the morning then after maintenance we reset to the desired schedule
I am trying to change cron so that we
run at 7:00am every day EXCEPT the third Sunday of the month
run at 9:00am only on the third Sunday of the month
the second item I am able to handle
0 13 15-21 * 0
however, the first has me stumped. I thought this would do the job but it will only execute this if the day is between 1-14 or 22-31 but what if the 15th is not Sunday - then it won't run.
0 11 1-14,22-31 * *
How do I tell cron to run a schedule EXCEPT the third Sunday of the month?
There is a large base of guidance on how to limit when a cron runs to a specific window but I haven't found much for how to EXCLUDE a cron from a specific window
******** UPDATE ********
I think I may have come up with an answer - not sure if it is the most efficient but
0 11 1-14,22-31 * 0
0 13 15-21 * 0
0 11 1-14,22-31 * 1-6
The above will
run at 11:00 UTC on Sunday if date is between 1-14 or 22-31
run at 13:00 UTC on Sunday if date is between 15-21 (3rd Sunday)
run at 11:00 UTC Monday through Saturday all month
If a cron job has different timing than others, then it best to just define it by itself rather than trying to combine, unless you put some code in your script to do what you actually want. Doing something in cron on some nth day of the month is a pretty well known problem. Most crontab man pages have this note:
Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified in the following two fields — 'day of month', and 'day of week'. If both fields are restricted (i.e., do not contain the "*" character), the command will be run when either field matches the crent time. For example,
"30 4 1,15 * 5" would cause a command to be run at 4:30 am on the 1st and 15th of each month, plus every Friday.
So it does OR between the day of the week and the day of the month, not an AND. I don't who ever thought this was helpful, but that's the way it is. You can see solutions at:
Run every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month
you need something like (this assumes cron runs /bin/sh):
[ `date +\%w` -eq 6 ] && <command>
on your cron job line, the above is would restrict to running only on Saturday.
Goal
Create a Cron expression that will run a task at 2 pm and 4 am every day to run a Splunk alert
Except for only run the 2 pm task on Thursday (don't run the task a 4 am on Thursday).
Question
Is this an expression that can be represented in a single expression? (if so how).
Edited:
Agree with Simon, you can configure 2 separate cron schedules:
1st expression(skipping Thursday) - “At minute 0 past hour 4 and 14 on every day-of-week from Monday through Wednesday and every day-of-week from Friday through Sunday.”
0 4,14 * * 1-3,5-7
Cron expression for Thursday:
0 14 * * 4
You can't express that in Cron.
Suggest you go with 2 separate from expressions, both times on all days expect Thursday, and then a separate Cron task just for the 2pm task on Thursday
I was wondering if anyone knew how to create a cron job that runs from monday to friday at 6am.
I am using gitlab CI, quickly looked at the example syntax and am not exactly sure how to limit it to occur from monday to friday.
Not sure what about gitlab CI, but cron syntax is minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week, meaning job which should run every week day from 6am is
0 6 * * 1-5
I'm trying to write a crontab expression that will begin a specified period of time and run on an interval for a 24 hour period. For example I want the job to run every Thursday beginning at 4 PM and repeat every hour for 1 day. Is there a way to do this? Everything I have tried stops at the end of the day Thursday.
You need two crontab entries, one for the occurrences on Thursday and one for the occurrences on Friday.
For example (I have not tested this):
0 16-23 * * 4 your_command
0 0-15 * * 5 your_command
The fifth column is the day of the week, with Sunday=0. (Vixie cron also lets you specify the day of the week by name.)
Hi I want to create a cron expression excluding saturday and sunday.
Begin the line with 0 0 * * 1,2,3,4,5 <user> <command>. The first fields are minutes and hours. In this case the command will run at midnight. The stars mean: for every day of the month, and for every month. The 1 to 5 specify the days. monday to friday. 6=saturday 0=sunday.
Try this:
# run every two hours at the top of the hour Monday through Friday
0 */2 * * mon-fri <command>