Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:39:33 +1000 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, thomas@pbegames.com Subject: Re: Crontab - Biweekly events? Message-ID: <200108022339.JAA21960@tungsten.austclear.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> of "Thu, 02 Aug 2001 15:47:25 %2B0300." <20010802154725.B24967@everest.wananchi.com>
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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 <ahl@austclear.com.au> 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
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