Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:20:16 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net>, Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crontab entry Message-ID: <20000914092016.B42003@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <20000914001704.R69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>; from cjclark@reflexnet.net on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 12:17:04AM -0700 References: <20000914083428.A20675@curry.mchp.siemens.de> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009132343090.3824-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org> <20000914001704.R69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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On Thu, 14-Sep-2000 at 00:17:04 -0700, Crist J . Clark wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:49:11PM -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. > > No need for a wrapper, just put it all in the crontab, > > 0 6 * * 4 if [ `date +\%d` -le 7 ]; then /path/to/my/command; fi I have done this now, thanks. -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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