Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 22:01:27 -0400 From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron pickle Message-ID: <20010916220127.A35836@ussenterprise.ufp.org> In-Reply-To: <F243F4r4rPKlNonsYKU00010632@hotmail.com>; from ta_iy@hotmail.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:40:15AM %2B1000 References: <F243F4r4rPKlNonsYKU00010632@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:40:15AM +1000, Tim Allshorn wrote: > I need to be able to run a particular program at the last minute of each > month and yes I know it would be much easier to run it at the first minute > of each month, but my hands are tied and my brain is too puny to work it > out. I think you want 12 cron entries, one for each month. That said, you might want to rethink what you are doing. While it would be unusual, on a heavily loaded machine, or a machine experiencing some form of clock skew (eg our recent fast clock SMP issue) there is no guarantee that the process is actually run in the last minute, or even if it is started in the last minute that it would complete in that minute. Since running on the first minute seems unacceptable for some reason I can only assume that is important in your current setup. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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