From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 17 07:19:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA17515 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 07:19:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from www.buffalostate.edu (hummel@www.buffalostate.edu [136.183.2.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA17510 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 07:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hummel@www.buffalostate.edu) Received: from localhost (hummel@localhost) by www.buffalostate.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA00941 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:19:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 10:19:28 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Hummel To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: man 5 crontab Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk man 5 crontab says: Lists are allowed. A list is a set of numbers (or ranges) separated by commas. Examples: ``1,2,5,9'', ``0-4,8-12''. And later says: Lists and ranges are allowed to co-exist in the same field. "1-3,7-9" would be rejected by ATT or BSD cron -- they want to see "1-3" or "7,8,9" ONLY. Is this supposed to say/mean "1-3,7-9" would be rejected by ATT (but accepted by BSD)? I'm gonna have to figure that */15 0-6,14-23 * * 7 root do_something is a valid entry in BSD to mean do something every 15 minutes from midnight to 6am and then again from 2pm to midight.