Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!dmcanzi
From: dmcanzi@watserv1.waterloo.edu (David Canzi)
Subject: Re: Cron - First Saturday of the month
Message-ID: <1990Aug10.040654.17334@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: People's Democratic Republic of Uniwat
References: <19744@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <1990Aug8.185745.16606@iwarp.intel.com> <1990Aug8.214539.1264@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1990Aug9.001850.19494@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 90 04:06:54 GMT
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In article <1990Aug9.001850.19494@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>I submit that the writers of that there manpage just didn't know what
>they were talking about.  As a real guru hacking the One True Unix, I
>would then curse the manpage author, and go look at the source.
>However, since I haven't seen UNIX source (UNIX without source... a
>mortal sin) for 5 years (gack!!!), I cannot resolve this by myself.
>Help, someone?

In the absence of source code, you experiment.  At 23:32 on Thursday,
Aug 9, these were the contents of my crontab:

32 23 1-5 * 1 date > /u/dmcanzi/temp/www
32 23 7-11 * 4 date > /u/dmcanzi/temp/xxx
32 23 1-5 * 4 date > /u/dmcanzi/temp/yyy
32 23 7-11 * 1 date > /u/dmcanzi/temp/zzz

The files xxx, yyy, and zzz were created, www was not created.  The
manual page is correct.

-- 
David Canzi