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

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 > > Bu

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

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:

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:/bi

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 be

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. -- Nothin

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 hav

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 my-

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 * *

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,