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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Cron - First Saturday of the month
Message-ID: <1990Aug8.185745.16606@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 8 Aug 90 18:57:45 GMT
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In-Reply-To: curt@oce.orst.edu (Curt Vandetta)

In article <19744@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, curt@oce (Curt Vandetta) writes:
|   I'm wondering if anyone has a way of making cron run a job on the
|   first Saturday of every month?  

3 4 1-7 * 6 command

to make 'command' run at 4:03am... adjust the first two fields as
necessary.  Remember, the parameters are "and"-ed together.

#ifdef FLAME_ABOUT_INAPPROPRIATE_GROUP

This is not a wizard question.  Wizards generally know cron things,
especially things that can be found with "man 5 crontab".  Do not post
to wizards unless you *are* a wizard, and if you have any doubt about
whether you are a wizard or not, you're not!

Now, if you had asked which versions of cron did *not* provide /etc in
the PATH... that'd be a wizard question. :-)

#endif

Just another UNIX hacker,
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