Re: [gentoo-user] crontab - and' condition
On Saturday 20 September 2014 12:09:32 Michael Orlitzky wrote: This is one of my favorite old seriously? bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777 Round and round and round we go. Wonderful! -- Regards Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] crontab - and' condition
On 09/19/2014 03:09 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: No wait, that won't work. What you want to accomplish cannot be done with a single crontab job. Use periodic/monthly like the other poster said or use anacron so the job will run when the machine is next powered on. Actually, Gentoo's sys-process/cronbase is supposed to make sure that this happens. But the way it works is poorly (i.e. not) specified. This is one of my favorite old seriously? bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777
Re: [gentoo-user] crontab - and' condition
On 09/19/14 09:47, Stephan Müller wrote: Am 18.09.2014 um 18:44 schrieb Joseph: I want to run a cron job only once a month. The problem is the computer is only on on weekdays Mon-Fri. 1-5 cron tab as this below is an or condition as it has entries in Days of the Months and Day of the Week 5 18 1 * 2 rsync -av ... so it will run on days 1 or Tuesday of each months. Is it possible to create and condition, eg. run it on Tuesday between days 1 to 7; depend on which day Tuesday falls on? You can run it every Tuesday and check for day of month externally: 5 18 * * 2 test $(date +%d) -le 7 rsync -av ... or run it on 5 18 1-7 * * and test for Tuesdays, but the former gives less useless invocations. ~frukto Thanks, very cleaver, I knew there must be a solution. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] crontab - and' condition
On 19/09/2014 06:21, Joseph wrote: On 09/18/14 19:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2014 18:44, Joseph wrote: I want to run a cron job only once a month. The problem is the computer is only on on weekdays Mon-Fri. 1-5 cron tab as this below is an or condition as it has entries in Days of the Months and Day of the Week 5 18 1 * 2 rsync -av ... so it will run on days 1 or Tuesday of each months. Is it possible to create and condition, eg. run it on Tuesday between days 1 to 7; depend on which day Tuesday falls on? Not in one line. Split it into two crontab entries. Interesting. How do you split cron job? I couldn't find any examples. No wait, that won't work. What you want to accomplish cannot be done with a single crontab job. Use periodic/monthly like the other poster said or use anacron so the job will run when the machine is next powered on. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] crontab - and' condition
Am 18.09.2014 um 18:44 schrieb Joseph: I want to run a cron job only once a month. The problem is the computer is only on on weekdays Mon-Fri. 1-5 cron tab as this below is an or condition as it has entries in Days of the Months and Day of the Week 5 18 1 * 2 rsync -av ... so it will run on days 1 or Tuesday of each months. Is it possible to create and condition, eg. run it on Tuesday between days 1 to 7; depend on which day Tuesday falls on? You can run it every Tuesday and check for day of month externally: 5 18 * * 2 test $(date +%d) -le 7 rsync -av ... or run it on 5 18 1-7 * * and test for Tuesdays, but the former gives less useless invocations. ~frukto
Re: [gentoo-user] crontab - and' condition
On 18/09/2014 17:44, Joseph wrote: I want to run a cron job only once a month. The problem is the computer is only on on weekdays Mon-Fri. 1-5 cron tab as this below is an or condition as it has entries in Days of the Months and Day of the Week 5 18 1 * 2 rsync -av ... so it will run on days 1 or Tuesday of each months. Is it possible to create and condition, eg. run it on Tuesday between days 1 to 7; depend on which day Tuesday falls on? You can place a script in /etc/cron.monthly. The run-crons script is scheduled to execute every 10 minutes, and it will ensure that your script is executed on a monthly schedule. This is true of both cronie and vixie-cron. --Kerin
Re: [gentoo-user] crontab - and' condition
On 18/09/2014 18:44, Joseph wrote: I want to run a cron job only once a month. The problem is the computer is only on on weekdays Mon-Fri. 1-5 cron tab as this below is an or condition as it has entries in Days of the Months and Day of the Week 5 18 1 * 2 rsync -av ... so it will run on days 1 or Tuesday of each months. Is it possible to create and condition, eg. run it on Tuesday between days 1 to 7; depend on which day Tuesday falls on? Not in one line. Split it into two crontab entries. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] crontab - and' condition
On 09/18/14 19:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2014 18:44, Joseph wrote: I want to run a cron job only once a month. The problem is the computer is only on on weekdays Mon-Fri. 1-5 cron tab as this below is an or condition as it has entries in Days of the Months and Day of the Week 5 18 1 * 2 rsync -av ... so it will run on days 1 or Tuesday of each months. Is it possible to create and condition, eg. run it on Tuesday between days 1 to 7; depend on which day Tuesday falls on? Not in one line. Split it into two crontab entries. Interesting. How do you split cron job? I couldn't find any examples. -- Joseph
