Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:47:29 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: George Yobst <george@lincc.lib.or.us>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cron question Message-ID: <20001011214729.J25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <14820.46059.743717.697477@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 01:39:39PM -0500 References: <14344580@toto.iv> <14820.46059.743717.697477@guru.mired.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 01:39:39PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > George Yobst writes: > > Hi all, > > How do I get cron to start a job on the first Sunday of the month? > > Thanks -George > > By starting a wrapper every Sunday. The wrapper checks that the day of > month and launches your job if it's less than 8: > > if [ `date +%d` -lt 8 ]; then > realjob > fi > > That's small enough to imbed in a cron file if you really wanted to. Or if you want to be 3l33t, you can cut that to, [ `date +%d` -lt 8 ] && realjob -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20001011214729.J25121>