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Old 08-12-2010
Help with cronjob scheduling
Hi Everybody,

How to schedule a job using cron that shouldn't run between working hrs 9am-5pm, while run in non working hrs every hour, every day of the month, month & week.

I tried the following way, not sure I can use logical not operator(!). Please correct me if wrong or suggest other ways which might be better.

Code:
crontab -e
0 !9-17 * * * /path/to/script/file

I guess other way is
Code:
0 17-8 * * * /path/to/script/file

Thank you in advance
Last edited by pludi; 08-12-2010 at 08:43 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 08-12-2010
AFAIK, there is no negation operation.

You can try this,

Code:
0 0-9,17-23 * * * CMD

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Old 08-13-2010
Thanks for the help
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