Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!think.com!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hplabsz!sartin From: sartin@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Rob Sartin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: What is crontab doing with this? Message-ID: <5921@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Date: 15 Sep 90 00:04:51 GMT References: <1990Sep14.171634.15987@pmsmam.uucp> Reply-To: sartin@hplabsz.UUCP (Rob Sartin) Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Software & Systems Laboratory Lines: 20 In article jad@hpcndnm.hp-sdd (John A Dilley) writes: >In article <1990Sep14.171634.15987@pmsmam.uucp> wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan) writes: >> 19 2 1 1-12 0-6 [command to be executed] > If you specify the days two different ways (as above where you >specify both day of the month and day of the week), BOTH get executed. >So your above entry says to run command at 2:19 the first day of each >month and every Sunday-through-Saturday. From the crontab(1) manual: ...and give an explanation. What John left out is the answer to "what is a valid way to specify a command to run on the first of every month?" The answer is: 19 2 1 * * [command to be executed] Rob Sartin internet: sartin@hplabs.hp.com Software & Systems Lab uucp : hplabs!sartin Hewlett-Packard voice : (415) 857-7592 If HP has/had an official net.spokesman it wouldn't be me.