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Old 10-16-2012
How to Disabling cron for few hours each day
Hi

Is there any way to disable cron adhoc ?

I want to run a script for every one minute between 04 to 00 hours

will the below serves my purpose ?
Code:
01 04-00 * * * <your script>

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Old 10-16-2012
That is from 4:00am to midnight
try:
Code:
# one way
* 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 * * *  /path/to/my/script
#another way
* * * * *  [ `/usr/bin/date +%H` -gt 3 ] && /path/to/my/script

 
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