Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

[Nicolas Bercher <nbercher@yahoo.fr>]

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 my-script
> > Using this, cron should execute my-script on 06:10, 06:20 … 23:50, 00:00, 00:10 …
> > 00:50. What you probably want is
> >
> > */10 6-23 * * * my-script
>
> In addition to the above, remember that it's possible to supply lists to
> cron fields. If you want to span midnight, you probably want something
> like:
>
>   */10 0,6-23 * * * my-script
>
> Though this will run every 10 mins in the hours 00:00, 06:00, 07:00
> etc. Again, probably not what you want. 6-23 will probably be best.

Thanks you two, things get clearer now because I was thinking about
numbers as boundaries instead of durations.

So you were both right, what fits my needs the best is probably
"*/10 6-23 * * 1-5"

Nicolas