From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 20 1: 3:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E5D637B406 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 01:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id KAA02454; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:11:19 +0200 Message-ID: <3B57E654.43EB583A@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:05:40 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Thomas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crontab - Biweekly events? References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010719175024.02510170@pbegames.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Thomas schrieb: > > I've been looking at man 5 crontab to see how to do this, but can't seem to > puzzle through it. > > I have a task I want to run every other week on a specific day, say > Tuesday. I can't see a way to convince cron to do this. Anyone know how? Have a weekly event call a script wich alternates between creating a flag file and deleting it. Call your thingy when you create the file, but not when you delete it. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message