Jeff Hyman typed (on Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:23:05PM -0500):
| Am I missing something, or is this a bug in cron?
| OSR5.0.6
|
| COMMAND can be whatever.
| # grep COMMAND /usr/spool/cron/crontabs
Don't be typing "/usr/spool./cron" as part of any command, it's living on
the edge. You could do:
No "over-riding:" is occuring. Read the crontab man page. The
command will run every Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri, AND ALSO Saturday or
Sunday providing the date is Jan 23.
that day
| ./root:18 13 23 01 * exec COMMAND
| ^^^^^^^^^--- Works as expected, does NOT run
| except Jan 23, 13:18
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