Thank you. Sorry, I have egg on my face.
On 02/23/2014 08:22 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 08:20:06AM -0600, Joseph Hesse wrote:
>> I have a root cron job that powers down my server every day at 1am and
>> 6pm. The output of '# crontab -l' is shown below.
>>
>> * 1,18 * * * poweroff
> Nope. That says "every minute of hours 1 and 18". So 0100, 0101, 0102, 0103
> etc etc
>
> You want it to read "0 1,18 * * * poweroff"
>
>> Apparently a cron job that executed correctly at 6pm was executing
>> minutes past 6pm when the server was restarted. This is totally
>> unexpected behavior.
> Totally expected.
>
>> Is there a fix for this behavior?
> Yes, user error; fix the cron job.
>
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