Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:18:50 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net> Cc: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crontab entry Message-ID: <20000914091850.A42003@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009132343090.3824-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org>; from takhus@takhus.mind.net on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:49:11PM -0700 References: <20000914083428.A20675@curry.mchp.siemens.de> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009132343090.3824-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org>
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On Wed, 13-Sep-2000 at 23:49:11 -0700, Tony Fleisher wrote: > 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. I think I will have to do that, thanks, -Andre > > > 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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