Cron - First Saturday of the month
Christopher R Volpe
volpe at underdog.crd.ge.com
Thu Aug 16 06:57:54 AEST 1990
In article <1489 at hagbard.dc.luth.se>, bj at dc.luth.se (B|rje Josefsson) writes:
|>Slightly a side question according to the Subject:, but how to setup a
|>command for execution on the LAST day of the month ONLY?
|>
|>I could use:
|> 0 0 31 1 * command
|> 0 0 28 2 * command
|> 0 0 31 3 * command
|> and so on
|>but that will not work on leap years...
|>
|>--Borje
Set the date on your machine to one day ahead of the real date, and tell
cron to run your application on the first of each month. ( 1/2 :-) )
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Chris Volpe
G.E. Corporate R&D
volpecr at crd.ge.com
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