On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 11:47:05PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 31.01.13 00:07, Dave (d...@flex.com.au) wrote: > > > Hi. I'm not on the maillist, but I recently read that systemd was planning > > to introduce an integrated job scheduler, if it isn't done already. > > > > If so, then it would be very handy to introduce a way to run scheduled jobs > > at the end of the month. It's something of a pet peeve I have with cron, > > that it can't natively do this. > > > > I can work around it, but it's not pretty, and I'd much prefer a native > > solution. I thought I'd throw the suggestion here as a good idea for the > > new scheduler. > > This definitely sounds useful. We should certainly extend our syntax to > support this, and the code for it wouldn't even be that difficult. > > However: we'd first have to come up with a nice syntax for it. I'd > assume we probably want to allow not only the last day of the month, but > any day counted from the end of the month. It would appear natural to > use negative numbers for that, so that "5" is the fifth day, and "-5" > the day five days before the end of the month. However, the dash is > already used to separate the day from the month, so that would look a > little awkward. > > Suggestions what we could do instead? > > "2012-02-:4" maybe? > > "2012-02-~4"? This one looks nice.
> "2012-02-^4"? > > "2012-02-$4"? > > Other suggestions? > > Lennart Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
