[App_rpt-users] ACID Crontab

[Steve Zingman]

You should be able to find the source to the version of cron and fix it. 
According to the allstarlink.org web site, ACID is "Old/Obsolete Distros 
(no longer supported)"

Steve

On 04/04/2016 09:14 PM, Steve Mahler wrote:
> I'll answer my own question ...
>
> Cron is running as documented, but it is not a good thing.  Where all
> other time parameters are AND'ed, Day of Week and Day are OR'ed.  So
> the elegant solution seems to be ...
>
> 06 00 * * 4         [ `date +\%d` -le 7 ] &&
> /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 46
> 58 18 * * 4         [ `date +\%d` -le 7 ] &&
> /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/ooclear 50
>
> Anyone think the source code should be changed?
> ...STeve - KF5VH
>
> On 4/4/2016 12:57 PM, Steve Mahler wrote:
>> I am having some problems with cron entries running when I am not
>> expecting them to run.  This is an ACID distribution and the crontab
>> is set from the root account (crontab -l | crontab -e | etc.).
>>
>> My crontab file looks like (with the questionable lines commented
>> out).  The starting comments were taken from a search for CENTOS 5
>> crontab man page.  Just what am I missing??
>>
>> #
>> # Fields - KF5VH
>> #
>> # minute - any integer from 0 to 59
>> # hour - any integer from 0 to 23
>> # day - any integer from 1 to 31 (must be a valid day if a month is
>> specified)
>> # month - any integer from 1 to 12 (or the short name of the month
>> such as jan or feb)
>> # dayofweek - any integer from 0 to 7, where 0 or 7 represents Sunday
>> (or  3 letter name like Mon)
>> # command - the command to execute
>> #
>> */5 * * * *         /etc/asterisk/scripts/wxzip/Alert0
>> 10,25,40,55 * * * * /etc/asterisk/SANITYBOOT/sanityboot
>> 03 02 * * *         /sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org >>
>> /etc/asterisk/LOG/ntptimelog
>> # 07 00 * * 1         /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 44
>> # 58 23 * * 1         /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/ooclear 50
>> # 07 00 * * 2         /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 43
>> # 58 18 * * 2         /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/ooclear 50
>> # 06 00 1-7 * 4       /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 46
>> # 58 18 1-7 * 4       /etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/ooclear 50
>>
>> The cron log shows ...
>>
>> [root at KF5VH-AS1 log]# grep /oo cron
>> cron.1:Apr  3 00:06:01 KF5VH-AS1 crond[7629]: (root) CMD
>> (/etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 46)
>> cron:Apr  3 18:58:01 KF5VH-AS1 crond[7196]: (root) CMD
>> (/etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/ooclear 50)
>> cron:Apr  4 00:06:01 KF5VH-AS1 crond[30169]: (root) CMD
>> (/etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 46)
>> cron:Apr  4 00:07:01 KF5VH-AS1 crond[30264]: (root) CMD
>> (/etc/asterisk/scripts/WXA/oobuild 44)
>>
>> The first two lines should run on Monday.  The second two lines
>> should run on Tuesday.
>> The last two lines should run on the first Thursday of each month.
>>
>> ...STeve - KF5VH
>>
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