Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:39:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: George Yobst <george@lincc.lib.or.us> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cron question Message-ID: <14820.46059.743717.697477@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <14344580@toto.iv>
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George Yobst writes: > Hi all, > How do I get cron to start a job on the first Sunday of the month? > Thanks -George By starting a wrapper every Sunday. The wrapper checks that the day of month and launches your job if it's less than 8: if [ `date +%d` -lt 8 ]; then realjob fi That's small enough to imbed in a cron file if you really wanted to. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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