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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: <1990Aug10.224331.12881@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 10 Aug 90 22:43:31 GMT
References: <19744@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <1990Aug8.185745.16606@iwarp.intel.com> <1990Aug8.214539.1264@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1990Aug9.001850.19494@iwarp.intel.com> <1990Aug10.040654.17334@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1990Aug10.063819.5253@iwarp.intel.com> <7286@star.cs.vu
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In-Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)

In article <7286@star.cs.vu.nl>, maart@cs (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
| The code:
[deleted to protect my eyes, but it *is* the code I remember ...]
| The conclusion: the manual and the code contradict each other!
| The example
| 
|           0 0 1,15 * 1
| 
| ...will run the job on each monday whose date is either the 1st or the 15th!
| It might be too late to fix the manual...  (Grrrr!)

Yes, this is my point.  Actually, what I think happened is that you
posted the V7-derived cron, and Sunos4.1 went to the user-crontab
System (blech) V cron, and I suspect that they put some widgets in
there to do this stupid "OR" logic that I complained about in my last
two postings.

Anyone with access to system V source care to comment?  Are there some
yucky kludges in there?

Just another System V disliker,
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