CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Reputation: 4588

Crontab executes task every minute instead of running it once

I have the following crontab record:

* 17 * * 5 /usr/share/app/bin/run.sh

I expect it to run every Friday at 17.00, but looks like the task is executed first at 17.00 and then approximately every minute till 18.00

What is wrong here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 61

Answers (1)

NYRecursion
NYRecursion

Reputation: 2191

The * is a wildcard, use

00 17 * * 5 /usr/share/app/bin/run.sh

It makes sense that

*  17 * * 5 /usr/share/app/bin/run.sh

runs every minute until 18:00 b/c * 17 keeps matching.

Upvotes: 2

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