[CentOS] stupidly simple crontab problem

Wed Nov 17 11:47:24 UTC 2021
Steve Meier <email at steve-meier.de>

Hello Gary,

Am 2021-11-17 12:15, schrieb Gary Stainburn:
> 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?

I was recently struggling with reading crontab myself and found this 
useful
page that I have no affiliation with -> https://crontab.guru/

It points out that the day of the month is set to '*', which means every 
day.

If you want tasks to be executed one time only, look into `at` instead.

Kind regards,
   Steve