topic Re: Cron not function properly in Alerting

Cron not function properly

efelder0 — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:43:09 GMT

I have setup a cron in order to run a search at 8am everyday. Here is the syntax:

* 08 * * *

The search did get executed at 8am, but ran every minute between 8-9am.
I only need the search to run once each day.

Thoughts?

Re: Cron not function properly

Ayn — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:02:38 GMT

Well the initial * in your cron schedule specifies the minute, so when you specify * 8 at the beginning that's equal to saying every minute when the hour has the value 8. In order to have it run just at 8:00, just put 0 in the minute part:

0 8 * * *

Re: Cron not function properly

wayne_zhou — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:15:04 GMT

the first * specifies the every minute. so you should write like 0 8 * * *

Re: Cron not function properly

1206chandra — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:26:42 GMT

every day :
0*/8***

Re: Cron not function properly

broberg — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:21:35 GMT

I use sites like http://crontab.guru/ to make sure that i get my cron jobs right.