Crontab question (Every few minutes after a certain time)
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Crontab question (Every few minutes after a certain time)
Hi all,
I am able to get a job to run every x amount of minutes but what I need is to be able to get thsi job to run every x amount of minutes after, say 9am on a certain day.
The only part I'm struggling with is the "after 9am" part. All the other things like day of week and the actual command all work perfectly.
As you can see, it actually went until (5 minutes before) 13:00 even though it was expected to end at 12:00. So, what it seems to be is that for every hour that starts with the number specified in the range, the command runs. So, I would expect that "*/5 9-11 * * 5 command" would run every 5 minutes until 12:00, which may not be the desired affect. (Unless I had done something incorrectly.)
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