From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 0:18:59 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 A17EE37B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:18:55 -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 e8E7IpN05686; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:18:51 +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 e8E7Iod13365; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:18:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8E7Ioo33420; Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:18:50 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Tony Fleisher Cc: Andre Albsmeier , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crontab entry Message-ID: <20000914091850.A42003@curry.mchp.siemens.de> References: <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 In-Reply-To: ; from takhus@takhus.mind.net on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:49:11PM -0700 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 On Wed, 13-Sep-2000 at 23:49:11 -0700, Tony Fleisher wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > 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: > > > > AFAIK, this cannot be done with a crontab entry. However, you may be able > to wrap /path/to/my/command with a script that exits if the day of the > month is greater than 7, and then use a crontab entry that simply > specifies to run on every thursday. I think I will have to do that, thanks, -Andre > > > 0 6 1-7 * 4 /path/to/my/command > > > > It was run today on the 14th which is not the first thursday :-) > > > > >From the crontab(5) manpage: > > Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields -- > day of month, and day of week. If both fields are restricted (ie, aren't > *), the command will be run when either field matches the current time. > For example, > ``30 4 1,15 * 5'' would cause a command to be run at 4:30 am on the 1st > and 15th of each month, plus every Friday. > > Regards, > > TOny. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message