* Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030930 21:08]: wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:49:57PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
This question was asked and was answered by Crist J. Clark some years gone.
Google could not help me so I beg to ask here:
crontab(5) should be all you need.
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:53:47PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
* Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030930 21:08]: wrote:
23 11 * * Thu [ $(date +%d) -lt 8 ] your_script
How does that differ with the following?
23 11 * * 4 if [ `date +\%d` -le 7 ]; then
This question was asked and was answered by Crist J. Clark
some years gone.
Google could not help me so I beg to ask here:
I would like to run a script via crontab every
1. 3rd day and 28th day of each month (seems easy)
2. Every first Thursday of the month
One solution would be to
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:49:57PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
This question was asked and was answered by Crist J. Clark some years gone.
Google could not help me so I beg to ask here:
crontab(5) should be all you need.
I would like to run a script via crontab every
1. 3rd day and
Here are untested examples that I think should work. They run the job
at 3:00 am (the first two fields).
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:49:57PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
1. 3rd day and 28th day of each month (seems easy)
0 3 3,28 * * mycommand
2. Every first Thursday of the month
Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2. Every first Thursday of the month
0 3 1-7 * * [ `date +%a` = Thu ] mycommand
My understanding is that putting more than one condition in it
performs a logical conjunction. So wouldn't it work to do like this?
# minute hour dom month dow
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:56:20PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
My understanding is that putting more than one condition in it
performs a logical conjunction. So wouldn't it work to do like this?
# minute hour dom month dow command
031-7 * 4 mycommand
I thought that
Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:56:20PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
My understanding is that putting more than one condition in it
performs a logical conjunction. So wouldn't it work to do like this?
# minute hour dom month dow command
03