Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:16:24 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crontab : day-of-month support for last-day-of-month Message-ID: <43147848.4090606@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200508281316.48668.nb_root@videotron.ca> References: <200508281316.48668.nb_root@videotron.ca>
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Nicolas Blais wrote: >Hi, > >Does our crontab allow the use of "L" (as found on >http://wiki.opensymphony.com/display/QRTZ1/CronTriggers+Tutorial?decorator=printable) >in the day-of-month field which would allow for a job to run on a 31th or feb >28? > >It would be useful for certain apps like /www/awstats to update their database >on the last hour of the month since putting the cron job on the 1st of the >month makes the software update in a new month and putting it on the 30th of >the month might loose 1 day. > >Nicolas. > > As Lowell noted, "last day" isn't an option currently. Any number of scripting languages, though, are capable of handling this. Here was a solution we came up with, using PHP, a couple years ago: http://www.daleco.biz/articles/page.php?story=20 I'm sure something like this, or better, would be possible with PERL, ruby, etc., or possibly even sh/bash, though I've not tried. HTH, Kevin Kinsey
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