On 03/03/2008, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > monthly fulls: > > 00 02 * * * backuppc if [ `/usr/local/bin/date +%d -d tomorrow` = 02 ] ; > then /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup > host.domain.tld host.domain.tld backuppc 1 > > > > this will say 'if tomorrow is the second, run this' BUT you would need to > run this very early on the in the day.
this can be simply stated as 00 02 01 * * backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup host.domain.tld host.domain.tld backuppc 1 If "tomorrow" is the second, then "today" must be the first, and we can specify this directly in the crontab file, though running cron jobs at 2am is probably not a very good idea in North America. -- cheers, -ambrose Yahoo and Gmail must die. Yes, I use them, but they still must die. PS: Don't trust everything you read in Wikipedia. (Very Important) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
