hi ya you can run the script 7 times ( 7 entries in crontab ).... and if its not sunday, the script can exit.....
at least no wrapper is needed... and there's probably "gazaillion" other ways to skin this cat c ya alvin On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Bud Rogers wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: > > I've got a job I'd like to run once a month, on a set day of the week, > > say, the first Sunday of the month. Suggestions as to how to do this > > with cron? > > Could you wrap the job in a shell scrip? Run the script from cron every > Sunday. Have the script check if the date is within the first seven days of > the month. If so run the job, else exit quietly. Not very elegant, but it > would get the job done. > > -- > Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr > All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
