From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 23:34:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A770C37B422 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:34:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from mail2.siemens.de (mail2.siemens.de [139.25.208.11]) by david.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8E6YTN09858 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:34:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mail2.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8E6YTd25892 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:34:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8E6YTo33146 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:34:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 08:34:28 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: crontab entry Message-ID: <20000914083428.A20675@curry.mchp.siemens.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am looking for a crontab entry that runs my command on the first thursday of every month at 6 am. I thought the following would work but it doesn't: 0 6 1-7 * 4 /path/to/my/command It was run today on the 14th which is not the first thursday :-) Thanks, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message