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From: Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Cron - First Saturday of the month
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Date: 20 Aug 90 19:03:49 GMT
Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, California
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To change the topic only slightly, it's worth pointing out that cron
really isn't reliable enough to use for monthly operations: if your
system happens to be down at the appointed time cron won't realize
that it missed executing something when it finally comes up.
Sometimes this is the Right Thing To Do, but usually it isn't.
Fortunately, at(1) will make up for missed events if you need that
capability.  Unfortunately, the command syntax of at(1) doesn't make
it any easier to run on the first Saturday of the month.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
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