Cron Job

[Joyce Suganthy]

Hi All,

Need a favour,

How do i put in crontab if i want a job to run every two hours between 8.30 to 5.30 every monday to friday?

Thanks a lot

Regards

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

No easy way, youre going to need an entry such as;

30 08,10,12,14,16 * * 1-5

4:30pm will be the last run as if you add 2 hours to that its 6:30pm which is past your 5:30pm deadline.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

30 5,7,9,11,13,15,17 * * 1-5 command

Regards,

Robert-Jan.

[Will Couillard]

Add the following entry to cron:

30 08 * * 1-5 program

program contents:

until [[ $(date '+%H%M') = 1730 ]]
do
job
sleep 7200
done