Hello Gary, On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 11:15:52 +0000 Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is crazy but I can't see the answer. In my system crontab I've added a job to stop the music system at 10:59 on the 11th November, and restart it at 11:02 on the 11th November > > # m h dom mon dow user command > 59 10 * 11 * root /bin/squeezy -all -off >>/var/log/newplaylist 2>&1 > 02 11 * 11 * root /root/bin/newplaylist >/var/log/newplaylist 2>&1 > > However, it's doing this every day. Can anyone see what's wrong? > # m h dom mon dow user command > 59 10 * 11 .. ^ This * makes it run for all days of the 11th month. Should you use, instead: 59 10 11 11 .. Regards, -- wwp https://useplaintext.email/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20211117/1282d3c4/attachment-0004.sig>