Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:00:44 -0400 From: Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crontab : day-of-month support for last-day-of-month Message-ID: <200508301700.51623.nb_root@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <43147848.4090606@daleco.biz> References: <200508281316.48668.nb_root@videotron.ca> <43147848.4090606@daleco.biz>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On August 30, 2005 11:16 am, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > 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 Ok, well I'll try to make a patch for my side. I still believe that having the option is better that not having it at all, though I may be wrong. Thanks for your replies! Nicolas. -- FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Aug 27 13:03:30 EDT 2005 root@clk01a:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A PGP? : http://66.130.198.54:8081/security/nb_root.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDFMkDz38ton5LGeIRAvlyAKCE+O/+peJSfW5fGOiOBsE6axyZhACdHnzT h2WlvX+XdO51rXygu7EDZLI= =IN26 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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