okay, I got it. Kinda hacky with all the pipes:

vars:
    "year"     string  => execresult("/usr/bin/date +%Y","noshell");
    "month"    string => execresult("/usr/bin/date +%m","noshell");
    "last_day" string => execresult("/usr/bin/cal $(month) $(year) |
awk '{print $7}' | grep -E "^[0-9]" | tail -1","useshell");

classes:
  "Last_Saturday" expression => classify("Day$(last_day)");

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Matt Richards <defraya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting. I had something similar with how to schedule for the last
> day of the month (ya, the shell commands are cheating a bit):
>
> vars:
>    "year"     string  => execresult("/usr/bin/date +%Y","noshell");
>    "month"    string => execresult("/usr/bin/date +%m","noshell");
>    "last_day" string => execresult("/usr/bin/cal $(month) $(year) |
> grep . | fmt -1 | tail -1","useshell");
>
>  classes:
>     "End_Of_Month" expression => classify("Day$(last_day)");
>
> .
> .
> .
>
> End_of_Month.Hr23::
>
> So basically at 11:00pm on the last day of the month, it would fire
> off. I am thinking something similar might be possible for the last
> Saturday.
>
>
> 2010/3/3  <nwat...@symcor.com>:
>> Over at Ars there was a discussion about scheduling a cron job for the
>> last Saturday of each month.  Alas, cron cannot do this on its own.  What
>> followed as a lot of short scripts to help but very few were portable.
>>
>> One of the newer goals of Cfengine is to be an enterprise scheduler.  For
>> fun and reputation how would you use Cfengine to schedule a job on the
>> last Saturday of each month?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> --
>> Neil Watson
>> 416-673-3465
>>
>>
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