From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 10: 0:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8290D37B502 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:00:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9AH0BV17142; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:00:11 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: tara@exit1.com Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Cronjob help Message-ID: <20001010100010.U272@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <39E34A7F.124049C9@exit1.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <39E34A7F.124049C9@exit1.com>; from tara@exit1.com on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:57:35PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * tara@exit1.com [001010 09:57] wrote: > I have read the documentation on setting up a cron job to run every > other Wednesday - I did exactly what the documentation stated - here is > my entry in /etc/crontab: > > #Capitolworks script > 30 12 * * mon/2 root > /usr/home/politemps/capitolworks/newsletter.pl > > However - the script runs every monday - does anyone know what is > wrong...I sure don't get it. I think that you need to try 'wed' instead of 'mon'. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message