[Techtalk] Cron problem

[Dan]

> 0 23 1-5 * * /bin/cp-allfiles.sh>>/root/mycronlog. 
> 
> It is my understanding that Monday through and
> including Friday evening at 11:30 pm the script will
> be run

You just got the fields mixed up: the third field is the day of the 
month; the fifth field is the day of the week. So your cron job is 
currently scheduled to run the first five days of every month - and it's 
the tenth day of the month.

For more information: man 5 crontab (you have to include the 5, because 
crontab(1) isn't quite so helpful).

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