bashbot.cron

#
# this is an example crontab file for telegram-bot-bash
# copy it to /etc/cron.d/bashbot
#
# (c) https://github.com/gnadelwartz
#
# This file is public domain in the USA and all free countries.
# Elsewhere, consider it to be WTFPLv2. (wtfpl.net/txt/copying)
#
#### $$VERSION$$ v1.52-1-g0dae2db


SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:
# place your mailadress here
MAILTO=root


# ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
# │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
# │ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
# │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12)
# │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6) (Sunday to Saturday;
# │ │ │ │ │                                   7 is also Sunday on some systems)
# │ │ │ │ │
# │ │ │ │ │   ┌───────────── run as user (must be omited in users crontab
# │ │ │ │ │   |
# * * * * *  USER command to execute
# * * * * *  root  echo "run every minute!"

# run as www every day at 0:00 plus random sleep between 0-3h
  0 0 * * * nobody sleep "$((RANDOM \% 180 ))m" ; /usr/local/telegram-bot-bash/bashbot.rc start	# (re)start bot
  0 0 * * * nobody sleep "$((RANDOM \% 180 ))m" ; /usr/local/telegram-bot-bash/bashbot.rc resumeback	# (re)start background jobs

# run as www on 24 of Dec, 12:00
  0 12 24 12 * nobody /usr/local/telegram-bot-bash/bashbot.sh broadcast "X-Mas shopping is over!"	# broadcast a message