Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:16:37 -0400 From: Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: crontab : day-of-month support for last-day-of-month Message-ID: <200508281316.48668.nb_root@videotron.ca>
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--nextPart4767983.lGNQpR47n6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, Does our crontab allow the use of "L" (as found on=20 http://wiki.opensymphony.com/display/QRTZ1/CronTriggers+Tutorial?decorator= =3Dprintable)=20 in the day-of-month field which would allow for a job to run on a 31th or f= eb=20 28?=20 It would be useful for certain apps like /www/awstats to update their datab= ase=20 on the last hour of the month since putting the cron job on the 1st of the= =20 month makes the software update in a new month and putting it on the 30th o= f=20 the month might loose 1 day. Nicolas. =2D-=20 =46reeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Aug 27 13:03:30 EDT 2005 =20 root@clk01a:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A=20 PGP? : http://66.130.198.54:8081/security/nb_root.asc --nextPart4767983.lGNQpR47n6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDEfGAz38ton5LGeIRAvzhAJ9JWbCH5P3jpoiTnWFad6DAg9978ACfQp90 A/MGmhPjPkxkYBstdLj0MdE= =Pi0W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4767983.lGNQpR47n6--
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