OT: Cron question
Jakob Østergaard
jakob at unthought.net
Wed Feb 13 12:54:57 PST 2002
Hello Wulfers:
Sorry for posting OT here, but I know that you know what I'm doing
wrong here :)
Problem: I want cron to run job A every day, with one exception:
I want to run job B the first friday every month, and I do not
want job A to run on that particular day.
Yes, it's for running backups ;)
So, I put the following in my /etc/crontab:
# rule 1:
# Every day except fridays
45 23 * * 1-4,6,7 user jobA
# rule 2:
# All fridays except for the first in the month
45 23 8-31 * 5 user jobA
# rule 3:
# The first friday every month
45 23 1-7 * 5 user jobB
My problem right now is with rule 2: It will match every
day, not just fridays ! Why doesn't cron understand the
day-in-week field when I supply a day-in-month field ?
My cron is: vixie-cron 3.0.1 - this is a Redhat 7.1 system
with some 7.2 packages...
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