Dear all,

My crontab looks as follows:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root

# For details see man 4 crontabs

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  * user-name  command to be executed
00 7 8-14 * 2 root mailx -s "Dry Run E-Stage" foo@example.com < /dev/null
00 7 15-21 * 2 root mailx -s "Dry Run Q-Stage" foo@example.com < /dev/null
00 7 22-28 * 2 root mailx -s "Dry Run P-Stage" foo@example.com < /dev/null

The mailx commands are only for testing purpose. In the future they should be replaced by scripts. These scripts should run on any second, third and fourth tuesday of a month. But I got an email with the subject Dry Run Q-Stage, today on friday.

Could someone please tell me what is wrong here? Did I make a mistake anywhere in the crontab syntax?

Kind regards,
Joerg