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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:00:11 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        tara@exit1.com
Cc:        "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Cronjob help
Message-ID:  <20001010100010.U272@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <39E34A7F.124049C9@exit1.com>; from tara@exit1.com on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:57:35PM -0400
References:  <39E34A7F.124049C9@exit1.com>

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* tara@exit1.com <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."


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