Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:49:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net> To: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crontab entry Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009132343090.3824-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org> In-Reply-To: <20000914083428.A20675@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > I am looking for a crontab entry that runs my command on > the first thursday of every month at 6 am. I thought the > following would work but it doesn't: > AFAIK, this cannot be done with a crontab entry. However, you may be able to wrap /path/to/my/command with a script that exits if the day of the month is greater than 7, and then use a crontab entry that simply specifies to run on every thursday. > 0 6 1-7 * 4 /path/to/my/command > > It was run today on the 14th which is not the first thursday :-) > From the crontab(5) manpage: Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields -- day of month, and day of week. If both fields are restricted (ie, aren't *), the command will be run when either field matches the current time. For example, ``30 4 1,15 * 5'' would cause a command to be run at 4:30 am on the 1st and 15th of each month, plus every Friday. Regards, TOny. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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