On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 06:29:39AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach G. Crimp (on Fri, 07 Sep 2001 07:34:41PM -0700): > > Suppose one wants a command to run on the third of every month at 8:30 am, > > and only then. Neither "30 8 3 * * <command>" nor "30 8 3 * 0 <command>" > > will work according to the crontab(5) exerpt above. The first will cause it > > to run on the third, and every day of the week of every month. The second > > will cause the command to run on the third and on every Sunday. > > that's not true. the first part isn't. 30 8 3 * * will run only on the > third of the month. either/or only applies when both dom and dow are > non-*'s. >
Thanks.