From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 16:39:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.austclear.com.au (ns2.austclear.com.au [192.43.185.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42A037B405 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:39:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.166.65]) by ns2.austclear.com.au (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72NdYZ02200; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 09:39:35 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.166.65]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA21960; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 09:39:33 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200108022339.JAA21960@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, thomas@pbegames.com Subject: Re: Crontab - Biweekly events? In-Reply-To: Message from Odhiambo Washington of "Thu, 02 Aug 2001 15:47:25 +0300." <20010802154725.B24967@everest.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:39:33 +1000 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG wash@wananchi.com said: > Long time ago (not quite long really) someone called Crist J. Clark > posted something that would seem to diagree with Tony's assertion that > this cannot be done in a crontab. Actually, Crist's solution is for a totally different problem, because (as often happens) someone asked a new question following on from a different discussion without changing the subject line. Crist's solution was for executing a script on the first Thursday of the month. My suggestions were for executing something every arbitrary number of days. Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message