On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Alexander Holte-Davidsen
<alexander.david...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a application that I schedule via cron. This is a application that
> runs once a week, either on Tuesday or Thursday. The scheduling is now done
> via Puppet.
>
> I now see that I need to redefine this, on some nodes the application should
> for example only run the 3. Tuesday each month, not each Tuesday.
> I want to do the scheduling using puppet and parameterized classes. For
> example I want to be able to define:
>
> foo {'Tuesday':
> week => '3',
> hour => '18',
> minute => '00',
> }
>
> This should generate a cron job ( that changes every month). For November it
> should look like this:
> 00 18 20 11 * /usr/bin/foo
>
> Next month the crontab entry should be changed to:
> 00 18 18 20 * /usr/bin/foo
Hmmm. Should that be:
00 18 18 12 *
?
20 is an invalid month.
> Has anyone done anything similar and are willing to give me some input on
> how to solve this?
Instead of using the wildcard ('*') month, could you (simply) specify
the months?
0 18 20 1 *
0 18 18 2 *
0 18 20 3 *
0 18 18 4 *
0 18 20 5 *
0 18 18 6 *
0 18 20 7 *
0 18 18 8 *
0 18 20 9 *
0 18 18 10 *
0 18 20 11 *
0 18 18 12 *
-mz
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