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Crontab error

Hi,

I am getting this error while editing the crontab?

crontab: installing new crontab
"/tmp/crontab.XXXXePsNSJ":2: bad day-of-week
errors in crontab file, can't install.
Do you want to retry the same edit?

The crontab value is a below;

### recording mixing for Asterisk run every 5 minutes
1,6,11,16,21,26,31,36,41,46,51,56 * * *
1,2,3,4,5,6 /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_mix_recordings_BASIC.pl
### keepalive script for astguiclient processes
* * * * * /usr/share/astguiclient/ADMIN_keepalive_ALL.pl
### kill Hangup script for Asterisk updaters
* * * * * /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_manager_kill_hung_congested.pl
### updater for voicemail
* * * * * /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_vm_update.pl
### updater for conference validator
* * * * * /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_conf_update.pl
### flush queue DB table every hour for entries older than 1 hour
11 * * * * /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_flush_DBqueue.pl -q
### fix the vicidial_agent_log once every hour
33 * * * * /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_cleanup_agent_log.pl
### updater for VICIDIAL hopper
* * * * * /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_VDhopper.pl -q
### adjust the GMT offset for the leads in the vicidial_list table
1 1 * * * /usr/share/astguiclient/ADMIN_adjust_GMTnow_on_leads.pl --
debug --postal-code-gmt
### reset several temporary-info tables in the database
2 1 * * * /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_reset_mysql_vars.pl
### optimize the database tables within the asterisk database
3 1 * * * /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_DB_optimize.pl
## adjust time on the server with ntp
30 * * * * /usr/local/bin/ntpdate -u 18.145.0.30 2>/dev/null 1>&2
### VICIDIAL agent time log weekly summary report generation
2 0 * * 0 /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_agent_week.pl

Your help is highly appreciated.

tniemetz

Cron can spit out some terrible messages when it comes to troubleshooting. It appears to be caling out line 2 as an issue but that may not be the exact, or only issue. There is a script you can write/run that may give you more insight in to what is happening - here's a link to the "Wicked cool shell script..." book that has the code (page 148) :
http://books.google.com/books?id=Df7P1WyG87sC&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=/tmp/crontab:2:+bad+day-of-week&source=bl&ots=duQwpnGCGJ&sig=R7KsUaQdd7MZzVvLkQ7DktBljOI&hl=en&ei=diEvTPnaBIOKlwfQk93MCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Hopefully this will help you catch the issue.

Kamran Arshad

ASKER

thanks for the comment. I have narrowed down the entries.. only below entries are wrong;

### adjust the GMT offset for the leads in the vicidial_list table
1 1 * * * /usr/share/astguiclient/ADMIN_adjust_GMTnow_on_leads.pl --
debug --postal-code-gmt

### recording mixing for Asterisk run every 5 minutes
1,6,11,16,21,26,31,36,41,46,51,56 * * *
1,2,3,4,5,6 /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_mix_recordings_BASIC.pl

could you please tell what are the errors?

Tintin

I can't see anything obvious, but I can tell you that

1,6,11,16,21,26,31,36,41,46,51,56 * * *
1,2,3,4,5,6 /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_mix_recordings_BASIC.pl

is better written as

1/5 * * *
1-6 /usr/share/astguiclient/AST_CRON_mix_recordings_BASIC.pl

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tniemetz

Good call Tintin - those are the only two in the list that 'wrap' and seem to be the only two that are choking.

Kamran Arshad

ASKER

sorry but I did not understand ...how can I correct it?

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