Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:20:08 -0800 (PST) From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/21660: crontab mishandles day range Message-ID: <200101132020.f0DKK8159976@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
To: wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/21660: crontab mishandles day range
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 20:31:18 +0100
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 10:55 -0500, wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu wrote:
>
> >Synopsis: crontab mishandles day range
> >Release: FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386
> >Description:
> The following crontab line is intended to execute only on the
> 2d Friday of every month, but it executes every Friday morning.
> 8 8 8-14 * 5 mail -s "Pickup request" eoates < /home/wayne/mail/biohazard.mai
Could you please check your system's crontab(5) manpage? Here it
looks like this:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
%uname -sr
FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE
%man 5 crontab
[ ... ]
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.
[ ... ]
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The part of "either field" is emphasized. If your manpage tells
you the same, it seems that you have to find a different method
of specifying your intension. The easiest would probably be to
wildcard the DOW part and wrap your mail command into a script
which quickly checks `date '+%w'` output to be 5.
virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76
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