[Bug 1250837] Re: Schedule doesn't work correctly

Petya Kohts petya.kohts at gmail.com
Wed Nov 13 13:29:43 UTC 2013


You didn't read documentation carefully enough, qouting:

Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields --
day of month, and day of week.  If  both	 fields	 are  restricted  (ie,
aren't  *),  the command will be run when either field matches the cur-
rent 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 your schedule means "run when it is 6:30 AND november AND (tuesday OR
day of month is one of 8,9,10,11,12,13,14 )"

This is not a bug, but by design.

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Title:
  Schedule doesn't work correctly

Status in “cron” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hello,

  I think I have found a bug in cron.
  I scheduled a task to be executed in this month, November, between 8-14 days only if day was tuesday. Cron schedule:

  30 06 8-14 nov tue web /usr/bin/php
  /var/www/site/tarefas/pos_atualiza_fichas.php

  It has been executed every day not only tuesday and I don't know why
  it has been executed in day 5. See the logs:

  syslog.1:Nov 13 06:30:01 ns1 CRON[16377]: (web) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/site/tarefas/pos_atualiza_fichas.php)
  syslog.2:Nov 12 06:30:01 ns1 CRON[9743]: (web) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/site/tarefas/pos_atualiza_fichas.php)
  syslog.3:Nov 11 06:30:01 ns1 CRON[17923]: (web) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/site/tarefas/pos_atualiza_fichas.php)
  syslog.4:Nov  8 06:30:01 ns1 CRON[32583]: (web) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/site/tarefas/pos_atualiza_fichas.php)
  syslog.7:Nov  5 06:30:01 ns1 CRON[12131]: (web) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/site/tarefas/pos_atualiza_fichas.php)

  Best regards

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: cron 3.0pl1-106ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-44.98-server 2.6.32.59+drm33.24
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-44-server x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Nov 13 10:18:55 2013
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=pt_BR
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: cron

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