precedence in crontabs

[Ray Shwake]

david at mobius.msri.org (David Mostardi) writes:

>The problem: one can't specify both "first of the month" and
>"day of the week" in one crontab line.  So, I would need to
>do it in two lines.  What are the precedence rules?  For example,
>if I say this:

	Who says this level of discrimination must be conducted by cron? As
an alternative approach, consider running your backup routines through a
script which identifies day of week, day of month, etc. and acts 
accordingly. We developed such a routine years ago and it worked fine.

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