How to run crontab job every week on Sunday

Here is an explanation of the crontab format.

# 1. Entry: Minute when the process will be started [0-60]# 2. Entry: Hour when the process will be started [0-23]# 3. Entry: Day of the month when the process will be started [1-28/29/30/31]# 4. Entry: Month of the year when the process will be started [1-12]# 5. Entry: Weekday when the process will be started [0-6] [0 is Sunday]## all x min = */x

So according to this your 5 8 * * 0 would run 8:05 every Sunday.

To have a cron executed on Sunday you can use either of these:

5 8 * * 05 8 * * 75 8 * * Sun

Where 5 8 stands for the time of the day when this will happen: 8:05.

In general, if you want to execute something on Sunday, just make sure the 5th column contains either of 0, 7 or Sun. You had 6, so it was running on Saturday.

The format for cronjobs is:

 +---------------- minute (0 - 59) |  +------------- hour (0 - 23) |  |  +---------- day of month (1 - 31) |  |  |  +------- month (1 - 12) |  |  |  |  +---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) |  |  |  |  | *  *  *  *  *  command to be executed

You can always use crontab.guru as a editor to check your cron expressions.

Following is the format of the crontab file.

{minute} {hour} {day-of-month} {month} {day-of-week} {user} {path-to-shell-script}

So, to run each sunday at midnight (Sunday is 0 usually, 7 in some rare cases) :

0 0 * * 0 root /path_to_command