23 Feb
2014
23 Feb
'14
3:22 p.m.
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 08:20:06AM -0600, Joseph Hesse wrote:
I have a root cron job that powers down my server every day at 1am and 6pm. The output of '# crontab -l' is shown below.
- 1,18 * * * poweroff
Nope. That says "every minute of hours 1 and 18". So 0100, 0101, 0102, 0103 etc etc
You want it to read "0 1,18 * * * poweroff"
Apparently a cron job that executed correctly at 6pm was executing minutes past 6pm when the server was restarted. This is totally unexpected behavior.
Totally expected.
Is there a fix for this behavior?
Yes, user error; fix the cron job.
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rgds
Stephen