Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:05:40 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Mark Thomas <thomas@pbegames.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crontab - Biweekly events? Message-ID: <3B57E654.43EB583A@i-clue.de> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010719175024.02510170@pbegames.com>
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Mark Thomas schrieb: > > I've been looking at man 5 crontab to see how to do this, but can't seem to > puzzle through it. > > I have a task I want to run every other week on a specific day, say > Tuesday. I can't see a way to convince cron to do this. Anyone know how? Have a weekly event call a script wich alternates between creating a flag file and deleting it. Call your thingy when you create the file, but not when you delete it. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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