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Cronjob Help [message #201745]

Mon, 06 November 2006 10:08

toshidas2000
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I want to schedule a cronjob which runs first saturday of ever month. How do I do that, Please help.

Thanks
Toshi

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Re: Cronjob Help [message #201760 is a reply to message #201745]

Mon, 06 November 2006 10:45

Mahesh Rajendran
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Edit:
Obviously, i was wrong. Apologies.
I will keep you posted.

Edit 2:
I was not entirely wrong.
The said article explains it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab

Set the day to be saturday (6) and check for the date.
You need to write a small wrapper within the cronjob.

[Updated on: Mon, 06 November 2006 10:49]

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Re: Cronjob Help [message #201762 is a reply to message #201760]

Mon, 06 November 2006 10:57

Mahesh Rajendran
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something like this.
http://forum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=69083&messageID=255319

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Re: Cronjob Help [message #203464 is a reply to message #201762]

Wed, 15 November 2006 03:58

prabhakarkamath
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This must be more clear what crontab entry should look like...

crontab entry

* * * * * command to be executed
- - - - -
| | | | |
| | | | +----- day of week (1 - 7) (monday = 1)
| | | +------- month (1 - 12)
| | +--------- day of month (1 - 31)
| +----------- hour (0 - 23)
+------------- min (0 - 59)

So, your crontab entry look like the following..

0 0 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 * 6 command_to_execute

Cheers!!

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