Re: [CentOS] Cron on certain days?

2008-01-28 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Jan 28, 2008 1:26 PM, Scott Ehrlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible for me to schedule cron to say run script A on the first Friday of the month, script B on the second Friday of the month, script C, etc.? There is always the lowly 'at' command. Setup and maintenance would be a pain

Re: [CentOS] Cron on certain days?

2008-01-28 Thread Bob Beers
On Jan 28, 2008 2:26 PM, Scott Ehrlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible for me to schedule cron to say run script A on the first Friday of the month, script B on the second Friday of the month, script C, etc.? I think you can make cronjob run on every Friday, and in your script check

Re: [CentOS] Cron on certain days?

2008-01-28 Thread Michael D. Kralka
Scott Ehrlich wrote: Is it possible for me to schedule cron to say run script A on the first Friday of the month, script B on the second Friday of the month, script C, etc.? Yes. You just need to specify the day of the week and a day of the month with a range that can only happen for the

Re: [CentOS] Cron on certain days?

2008-01-28 Thread Bob Beers
Sloppy cut-n-paste error using -o, so this is obviously wrong ... day=`date +%d` if [ $day -ge 8 -o $day -le 14 ]; then echo '2nd Friday' # do F2 elif [ $day -ge 15 -o $day -le 21 ]; then echo '3rd Friday' # do F3 fi maybe something more like this: day=$(date +%d)