From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 15 19:34:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.mbox.com.au (203-134-146-019.cust.pth.iprimus.net.au [203.134.146.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380F437B400 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 19:34:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nms2.mbox.com.au (webmail.mbox.com.au [192.168.20.4]) by smtp2.mbox.com.au (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.05.17.04.13.p6) with ESMTP id <0GXS0099K1KXJI@smtp2.mbox.com.au> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 10:29:21 +0800 (WST) Received: from mbox.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by nms2.mbox.com.au (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GXS1O603.3AF for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 10:31:18 +0800 Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 12:31:18 +1000 From: BSD Freak Subject: Will this cron job work? To: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: <13a842613aacfe.13aacfe13a8426@mbox.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en 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 Hi all, I have a quick question. I need a cron job to run every 4 week (28 days) on a Monday (ie every 4th monday). Will the following do it: 1 8 * * 1/4 root /mydir/myscript With the above I am trying to run /mydir/myscript at 8:01am every 4th Monday. Will it work? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Would you like to receive faxes to your personal email address? You can with mBox. Visit http://www.mbox.com.au/fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message