Re: Unix - scheduling

>
> It does not work on Solaris 8.

SunOS (a.k.a. BSD) used vixiecron; they dumped it when "Solaris" went SVR4. You can still find workable copies of Paul's original work (pretty ancient by now).

Alternative it to use perl with Schedule::Cron to process the lines. It understands */X notation and passes the entire line to whatever dispatcher you choose -- which can interpret the rest of your cron line as whatever it likes.

For example:

• */24 * * * */28 /path/to/code

Would check for the 28th day ever 24 hours :-)

Probably the best bet for something like this is at, however, since it remembers the date + time that the event was scheduled for. This allows re-starting cron any number of times w/o resetting the start date used by at.

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