Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm trying to use cron to run a script on the first Sunday of every month at 0930. I used this entry in the crontab: # Run 1st Sunday at 0930 - Fulls 30 9 1-7 * 7 /usr/local/scripts/backup_bootstrap.sh Yet this script just ran on Thursday, December 6 at 0930. Why? I just added it to cron

Re: Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to use cron to run a script on the first Sunday of every month at 0930. I used this entry in the crontab: # Run 1st Sunday at 0930 - Fulls 30 9 1-7 * 7 /usr/local/scripts/backup_bootstrap.sh Yet this script just ran on Thursday, December 6 at 0930. Why? I

Re: Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/7/2007 10:49 AM Kevin Kinsey wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to use cron to run a script on the first Sunday of every month at 0930. I used this entry in the crontab: # Run 1st Sunday at 0930 - Fulls 30 9 1-7 * 7 /usr/local/scripts/backup_bootstrap.sh

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2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
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Re: Help with Crontab

2007-12-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 12/7/2007 10:49 AM Kevin Kinsey wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to use cron to run a script on the first Sunday of every month at 0930. I used this entry in the crontab: # Run 1st Sunday at 0930 - Fulls 30 9 1-7 * 7 /usr/local/scripts/backup_bootstrap.sh Yet this script just ran