RE: how to schedule a job every alternate sundays in unix cron

You can schedule ksh front end script every Sunday that does something like:

• snip ------------- #!/usr/bin/ksh

WEEK=`/usr/bin/date +%U`

while [ $WEEK -gt 0 ]; do

   WEEK=$(( $WEEK - 2 ))
done

if [ $WEEK -eq 0 ]; then

   echo "EVEN"
else

   echo "ODD"
fi
--------- snip ---------------

In place of echo "EVEN" or echo "ODD", you can have the ksh front end run your job. If you have a perl front end, I suppose you could use modulo arithmetic directly.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kommareddy sreenivasa [mailto:kommacnu_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 8:09 AM
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> Subject: how to schedule a job every alternate sundays in unix cron
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> OS: Solaris 2.8
>
> I have to run a backup script in every alternate
> Sunday.
>
> I cant find a way to submit it in cron.
>
> Can somebody help me how to setup a job to run
> alternate Sundays in unix cron .
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Srinivas
>
>
>
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Received on Wed Jul 16 2003 - 10:16:12 CDT